WorksheetsTheme/Summary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following might be a theme of a story?
overcoming fear
a brave young girl pretends to be a man
some people are afraid of heights
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too."
Which of the following would not be considered a theme?
the pain of love
the pressure of traditions
a soldier coming home from World War I
survival
The theme of a story is its________.
main character
lesson, moral, or message
basic plot
most memorable sentence or phrase
What is a summary?
Retells the main events of the story in a shorter version.
Tells the people in the story.
Tells where the story takes place.
Tells us the theme of the story.
What does SOMEBODY stand for?
Who is the story about and where are they?
Why did the plot change?
Where did they try to fix the problem?
What is the solution?
What does WANTED stand for?
What did the main character need?
What did the author want?
What did the main character want?
What did the author need?
What does the word BUT stand for?
Explain how the story ended.
Why does the main character change their mind?
Explain how the story began.
Explain how the main character did not get what they wanted.
What does the THEN stand for?
How did the character try and fix the problem?
How did the characters meet?
How did the characters get home?
What is the setting?
What does the SO stand for?
What is the setting?
How did the story begin?
What happened in the middle?
How did the story end?
True or False: In a summary you should include all of the main details from the text.
True
False
Why do we write a summary?
To give small details about the summary.
To explain the conclusion.
To tell what the story is mainly about.
Theme can be revealed by...
what a character learns
how a character changes
how a character deals with a problem
all of the above
When the theme is implied, what does that mean?
you have to use text clues or background knowledge to figure it out
the author tells you the theme
True or False: In a summary, you rewrite the original text.
true
false
