Themes

A theme is

• A universal lesson that applies to everyone.

• A specific lesson only for me.

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Key subjects that a theme may be based on are

• math, science, and reading.

• family, survival, and friendship.

• characters, setting, and plot. 

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A theme is

• a series of events in a story.

• a key message or lesson communicated in a story, poem or play.

• a summary of a story.

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Choose which one best describe you! 

• 4 I know how to determine a theme in a short story and support my thinking with text evidence.

• 3 I know how to determine a theme in a short story, but don’t always know how to find text evidence.

• 2 I know what the word theme means, but don’t know how to determine a theme in a short story.

• 1 I don’t know what the word theme means.

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