Theme

What is theme?

• What the text is mostly about.

• The message, lesson, or moral of the story.

• The most important parts of the story.

• The characters, setting, problem, events, and solution.

Theme must be...

• one word

• a sentence

Turn the following topic into a sentence: greedy

• Greedy

• Do not be greedy.

• Being greedy does not bring you happiness.

• People can be greedy.

What is wrong with the following theme?: Country Mouse learned to be grateful for what she has.

• Nothing is wrong, it is perfect!

• Town Mouse was the one who learned to be grateful.

• It needs to be only one word.

• It can't be applied to all parts of life.

How do you find the theme of a text?

• You use 5-finger retell to help you

• You think about the main idea

• You summarize the text

• You think only about the events in the story

What is 5-finger retell?

• A strategy to find the main idea of the text

• A way for you to retell a story

• Where you find the most important details in a story

• When you retell the characters, setting, and events

When you find events for 5-finger retell, they should come...

• before the problem

• after the solution

• from anywhere in the story

• between the problem and solution

What is the difference between character traits and character feelings?

• Traits are what the character is like, feelings are what the character feels

• Traits are what the character feels, feelings are what the character is like

When listing the characters of the story, you should...

• list only the main characters

• list every single character

Which of the following is NOT a part of 5-finger retell?

• Characters

• Events

• Solution

• Main idea