This week we have begun learning about theme! This is a really fun topic to teach and learn this time of year because our students already have some schema (background knowledge) about making inferences and they are all learning how to be insightful readers that think critically. Theme is challenging though in that it is not literal (unless you are reading a fable). Our students must be able to look at the events in the story and then determine what the author’s central message is. We discussed how the theme is THE MEssage. I’ll be posting more pictures tomorrow of the students hard at work making their own anchor charts and completing graphic organizers.
If you are in our class and you did not yet watch the Flocabulary video on Story Elements, please scroll down to our last post and check it out! If you did not have a chance to fill out the survey on Story Elements and Theme, please try this link :
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