Theme Sub Plan (No Prep): Short Story Theme Workshop, Grades 5-6 Reading

Three short stories about kids students' age (a climbing wall, a slow dog walk and a school play), and not one of them says its message out loud. Students run a theme workshop: for each story they write the theme as a full sentence about life, copy the one line that best shows it (inside quotation marks), and explain how that line shows the theme. A theme is not a single word like "friendship," and the Read and Learn box says so.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Reading, 2 pages: three short stories, "The Yellow Tape," "The Slow Walk" and "Guard Number Two"
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a 30-point grading guide
• All four documents in one ready-to-print PDF, in print order, 7 pages
• 9 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no scissors.

Answer key included

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