Theme Lesson: How Characters Respond to Challenges, Grades 5-6

"Think of a time something went wrong for you. What did you do next?" Students already know that what a person does when things go wrong shows who they are. This lesson turns that into a reading skill: a character's responses to challenges build toward the theme of the story.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Original story "The Back of the Pack," 2 pages, paragraphs numbered
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 7 pages

Answer key included

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