Determining Theme Worksheets

Determining Theme

Multiple Choice

ELASGSERL2: Which detail should be included in a summary of the story?

• A. Jane's mother is inside the house dusting the front parlor.

• B. Jane and her brothers are outside playing.

• C. While Mr. Brooney delivers groceries, Jane and her brothers feed the horse carrots.

• D. As Jane watches the horse, she imagines him as a bridge for her to walk under.

Multiple Choice

Part A: ELASGSERL2: Which statement best describes a theme in the story?

• A. Never walk under a horse.

• B. Some risks are dangerous but worth taking.

• C. Mr. Brooney's horse is a beautiful creature.

• D. Sometimes Jane's mother worries too much.

Multiple Select

Part B: ELASGSERL2: Which TWO choices from the story support your answer to Part A?

• A. Jane watched him and watched him.

• B. But goodness! Could Mama believe her eyes? What was Janey doing?

• C. "You mustn't walk under horses. They might start to kick or start walking or something."

• D. She had no desire to keep on walking under horses.

• E. So she had walked under him and from the feeling inside of her she thought it had turned out to be an all right sort of thing to do-just that once.