Central Idea and Theme Review

What is Theme?

• The main idea of the story

• The pattern of a book

• The classification or category a book falls under, based on the content of it's text

• The moral or lesson an author wants you to learn from reading a story.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

What question can we ask ourselves which will help us identify the theme of a story?

• How did the character(s) grow, or change, during the story?

• What is the story mainly about?

• What genre is this book?

• What are the sequence of events?

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CCSS.RL.4.2

How can we prove the theme in a story?

• By giving a character analysis

• Using accurate quotes from the text and explaining how the quote reveals the theme

• Inferencing

• Telling the main idea

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.W.4.2B

CCSS.W.4.9A

Together in class we read a book called, The Royal Mystery, and discussed the theme of this text. What was the theme of The Royal Mystery?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

Everyone knows the story of the 3 Little Pigs. What would a good theme be for the story, The 3 Little Pigs?

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CCSS.RL.4.2

There are 5 text structures that we've discussed throughout the court of this school year. List the 5 text structures:

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What is the text structure that uses this graphic organizer?

• Main idea and key detail

• Cause and Effect

• Sequential

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.5

What text structure uses this graphic organizer?

• Compare and Contrast

• Main idea and key detail

• Cause and effect

• Sequential

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.7

What text structure uses this graphic organizer?

• Compare and Contrast

• Main idea and key detail

• Cause and effect

• Sequential

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What text structure uses this graphic organizer?

• Main idea and key detail

• Problem and Solution

• Sequential

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.7