Theme Lesson: How Details Convey a Theme, Grades 5-6 Reading

A character keeps an old, scuffed lunchbox instead of throwing it out. What might it tell us? Students think about it first, then learn that a story's theme is carried by particular details: a choice a character makes, a line of dialogue, or an object that is new, moved or changed.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Original story "Sunday Soup," 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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