Theme Unit: 5 Lessons with Original Short Stories, Grades 5-6 Reading

Teach students to find the theme of a story in five days. This unit takes grades 5-6 from "what is a theme?" to comparing the themes of two stories and summarizing one without opinions.

What's inside

• 5 lessons, Days 1 to 5, each in its own folder (10 files per day)
• 73 slides in 5 PowerPoint .pptx decks: 14, 14, 15, 15 and 15 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, with minute-by-minute sequences and 25-minute versions
• 6 original realistic stories on 5 story files, 2 pages each, paragraphs numbered
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each, each with an exit ticket
• 5 answer keys, 1 page each; Day 5 includes a model summary and a 5-point rubric
• 5 ready-to-print PDFs, 7 pages each (35 pages), one per day

Answer key included

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