Themes and Antonyms

Themes and Antonyms

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What is a theme?

What do you think it means?

What is a theme?

A theme is what the author is trying to say. The author wants to send you a message.

Basically its the lesson learned.

Remember this?

Let's see if we can get the theme for this story

Multiple Choice

What are some details of the story can you remember?

• Coyote plays a trick on Rabbit and Beaver.

• Rabbit decides to trick Coyote.

• Beaver know how to trick him.

Multiple Choice

What are some details of the story can you remember?

• Rabbit and Beaver lifted Coyote on the log

• Coyote was pushed on the log.

• The log was pushed in the middle of the water.

Multiple Choice

What are some details of the story can you remember?

• Coyote woke up on his own

• Rabbit and Beaver woke the Coyote

• Rabbit and Beaver solved their problem.

Did you figure out the theme?

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There's actually 2 themes

• helping each other can solve problems

• you should not trick others for fun, otherwise you feel like them when they trick you.

Remember

The theme is the lesson that the author wants you to learn.

Antonyms

What do you think it means?

Antonyms

Antonyms are the words that have opposite meanings.

Antonyms

Why can't we just say opposite?

Yeah we can!

you can say 'opposite' but 'antonym' makes you sound smarter

Now that you know antonyms

Ready to start a little quiz?

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• open

• closed

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• clean

• dirty

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• wrong

• correct

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• sad

• happy

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• fast

• slow

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• weak

• strong

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• short

• tall

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• old

• new

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• empty

• full

Multiple Choice

What is the antonym for this picture?

• fat

• skinny

You think you know antonyms well?!

Lets see you read then!

Fill in the Blank

Find the antonym for the word in red.

Jungles are enormous. It is easy to lose your way and feel tiny.

Multiple Choice

Find the antonym for the word in red.

He was confused. He heard the words again. In a moment, he understood that the bird was talking to him!

• confused

• again

• understood