Theme Teaching Slides and Printable Guided Notes
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Looking for an interactive, rigorous, and easy (for you) way to teach your students about theme? This teaching slide bundle (with optional printable student notes) will help instruct you through teaching and implementing guided practice of theme.
There are 6 sets of teaching slides and guided notes included for each of the following topics:
- What is Theme?
- Theme Strategies
- Ways to Determine Theme and Choose the Best Theme of a Story
- Theme vs. Topic
- Theme vs. Summary
- Supporting Theme with Text Evidence
Learning Objectives Covered in this Bundle:
What is Theme? (50 slides)
- Define the term theme.
- Recognize that themes are not always directly stated but can be inferred from the story's events and characters.
- Identify clues in stories, such as challenges faced by characters and their responses, that can help uncover the theme.
- Practice determining the theme of short stories.
Theme Strategies (60 slides)
- Review the concept of theme and how it often must be inferred
- Learn and practice using four specific strategies for identifying theme of a story
Ways to Determine Theme and Choose the Best Theme of a Story (33 slides)
- Understand the importance of theme as the lesson of a story.
- Learn to identify challenges faced by characters and analyze their responses.
- Examine the changes characters undergo and the lessons they learn from their experiences.
- Practice determining themes of a story.
- Develop skills to choose the best theme for a story.
Theme vs. Topic (43 slides)
- Define and differentiate between theme and topic in stories.
- Recognize that while topics describe what a story is about, themes provide a deeper message or lesson.
- Analyze examples to understand the difference between topics and themes.
- Practice identifying themes and topics using short examples and a short story.
Theme vs. Summary (38 slides)
- Define and differentiate between summary and theme
- Read a story to practice identifying both summary and theme.
- Engage in exercises to determine whether given excerpts are summaries or themes.
Supporting Theme with Text Evidence (31 slides)
- Define text evidence and understand its importance in supporting themes.
- Analyze a story to identify the theme and gather text evidence supporting it.
- Practice using text evidence to support themes in different stories.
About the Teaching Slides Presentations
The presentation is a great way to teach or review the reading skill. It works well if you project it on your interactive whiteboard as a whole group lesson, but you could also assign it independently through your digital learning platform as a reference for your students.
The teaching presentation includes a variety of types of slides…
- Vocabulary
- Questions
- Answers
- Short stories
- Longer stories with comprehension questions
- Brainstorming
- Interactive activities
Interactive Elements:
The presentation encourages participation by asking students questions and encouraging them to answer as they go. Add in more interactive elements as needed to keep your students engaged and interacting with the content.
The presentations are NOT editable. Due to copyright restrictions and the terms of use of design components used, the presentations are not editable. You are able to delete or reorder slides as needed. Thank you for understanding.
Note: Some of the longer passages have discussion questions included on the slides. They are NOT included in the student printables. These are not always related to the skill, but optional discussion questions you may wish to use for conversations or “turn and talk” opportunities.
Accessing the Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint:
If you want to access the slideshow in Microsoft PowerPoint instead of Google Slides, simply make a copy to your drive, then follow these steps:
- Open the Google Slides file.
- Click: File > Download > Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)
- The file will download to your computer and you will be able to open it in PowerPoint.
About the Guided Notes
The guided notes match the presentation and allow students to fill in the blanks while you go through the slides. After the presentation, the students have a handy reference for the skill!
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