Theme Vocabulary

The message or lesson about life that a writer wants to communicate.

• infer

• theme

• support

• topic

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

to use details from the text and your knowledge about life to figure out the message.

• topic

• theme

• infer

• support

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

What a work is about- usually only one or two words

• topic

• recurring themes

• infer

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

themes that appear again and again in literature, art, and media of different time periods and cultures.

• inter

• topic

• universal theme

• support

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

related themes shared in many works of art and literature that apply to a particular time or place

• recurring themes

• universal themes

• topic

• infer

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Things the characters say or ways in which they change that may help a reader determine a passage's theme

• infer

• topic

• support

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D