Theme
The definition of theme
What is the lesson or moral of the story?
The definition of main idea
What is what the text is mostly about?
Another way to ask about text structure
What is "how is the text organized"?
First person narration typically contains the words
What is "I, me, my"?
The difference between fiction and non-fiction
What is fiction is a made-up story with characters and non-fiction is a text with real facts and information?
The type of text that the theme would be found in
What is fiction?
The definition of a key detail
What is a detail or part of the story that is very important to the story?
The 6 different types of text structure
Sequence, Chronological, Description, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution
A synonym for point of view when it is asking for a character's point of view
What is perspective or opinion?
The definition of foreshadowing
What is a hint that tells what might happen at the end of the story?
The characteristics that a theme should be
What is it should be general, apply to everyone and not include character names and actions.
Some ways to help you find the main idea of the text
What is:
Looking for repeating words
Looking at the headings and title
Read the first and last sentence of the paragraph or passage
Texts organized chronologically typically contain these
What is dates or ages of the characters?
A character trait to describe Pablo (the boy in El mensaje de la botella)
What is compassionate, helpful, caring, environmentalist, empathetic, nice/kind?
What the sentence “They look like fleecy rainbows” suggests about the flowers
What is the flowers are soft and colorful?
The parts of the text that should be annotated to help identify the theme.
What is problem and solution?
The main idea of the text, "El mensaje de la botella".
What is a boy helps a whale clean his habitat from garbage?
What is chronological or sequence?
A difference between a story told in first person versus third person.
What is:
First person narration is affected by the character's emotions, thoughts, opinions and their relationships with others? (Need at least 2 out of 4 for full credit)
What is threw or chucked?
A theme of the text, La Musica de La Selva
What is:
Humans should take care of the environment/jungle.
People should be more considerate of animals/environment.
State a key detail from the text
What is:
The wolf got a bone stuck in his throat
The wolf asked the crane for help and offered a reward
The crane took the bone out of his throat
The wolf didn't give the crane a reward
The text structure of this passage
What is problem and solution?
Name a character trait to describe Lila
What is self-assured, confident, know-it-all, stubborn, or unique?
An inference we can make about what is happening in the passage
What is Patrick is celebrating his 11th birthday?