Squigly's Special Message (Halloween Theme)

Read the story Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter by John Steptoe to your class, then have them identify story events that support a given theme. They read Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman and complete a worksheet in which they list examples of...

Get ready to explore themes with a session rich in modeling that includes both worksheets and an assessment recording sheet. The class completes a pre-assessment to determine their understanding of theme and how to identify it. They read...

Help young scholars find their place in this world with this collection of geography materials. Whether they are writing down information in the flippable note-taking guide, or identifying the five themes of geography in sample postcard...

Fifth graders practice making inferences on various types of reading material. As a class, they develop a definition of the word "theme" and discuss themes for some of their favorite stories. They use the context of the reading...

This useful approach to determining themes based on specific details from a book is aimed at readers of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee. It could also easily be adapted for use with other books or readings. The class identifies recurring...

Leaf by Leaf: Autumn Poems by Barbara Rogasky is the foundation of this activity on theme identification. Critical thinkers read three different poems from the book then attempt to find the message the author is sending her readers. They...

Compare and contrast folktales, myths, and fables in an interactive eBook. The interactive is broken up into three topics: myths, fables, and folktales. Each section includes a reading passage and a guided lesson on the theme, topic, and...

Make a poster of this Literary Elements Organizer and post it in your classroom to remind class members of the various aspects of the elements of characterization, setting, conflict and theme. Links to this and other organizers are...

Take your lesson on theme one step further with a short video about how theme can apply in the real world. Sixth graders could use the video in a short story lesson, or when learning how to write a conclusion to an essay about a text....

Theme can be a difficult concept for young readers to grasp. Help them determine the theme of a poem with a six-minute video, which studies the use of repetition in "The Wind's Visit." The video is a great addition to a poetry unit, but...