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What is included?
1. Google Slides/PowerPoint: This is an interactive teaching presentation to teach theme. The Google Slides and PowerPoints help you teach or review the skill. There are three versions included in both PowerPoint & Google Slides. The slide presentation is organized so that you can use the I Do, We Do, You Do method:
- Model the Skill
- Let's Try It! (Active Engagement)
- Independent Practice (Exit Slip)
Version 1: (Teaching Slides) These slides include transitions so that you can discuss the answers before they appear. The answers are also in the notes section of the slideshow.
Version 2: (Student Slides) These slides can be used if you are teaching virtually or if you want to use this as a review and have students complete on their own.
Version 3: (Answer Key) This slide has all the answers.
2. Tips for choosing books to teach theme
3. Book Recommendations: chapter books & picture books
4. Graphic Organizers: common themes, multiple themes, themes across stories, theme: finding evidence, step-by-step theme, thinking about theme, revealing the theme
5. Theme Posters: The following theme posters are included: theme, theme topics vs. statements, revealing the theme, common themes. The posters come in different colors: red, teal, black and white)
6. Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions: total of 5 with a focus on theme
7. Exit Slips: There are 5 exit slips with a variety of questioning about theme in multiple choice or short response format. They print 2 per page and are also available in Google Forms.
8. Reading Activities:
- Best Friends Forever? (step-by-step theme)
- Theme: true or false?
- Could it be a theme?
- Theme or Main Idea?
- Theme: Find the Evidence x 2
- Writing about Theme
- Thinking about Theme
- Theme Practice
- Theme Quote Match
