Identify the Theme- Complete Reading Lesson with Activities

This is a full lesson teaching how to identify the theme in a text, complete with all the activities you need to consolidate this skill.

The theme of a story is the message, moral or life lesson that the author wants us to learn from the events in the story. Themes can be generalised to the real world and are not specific to the characters and events of the story.

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes all the information and activities you need to teach children how to identify the theme in a text.

PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTIONS - The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - to engage and get children thinking
√ AFL Question
√ Teaching input - what a theme is, what a theme is not and how we can identify the theme in a text
√ Examples of themes
√ Guided/ whole class consolidation activities - reading tasks - identify the theme
√ Differentiated questioning
√ Differentiated independent consolidation activity (3 levels)
√ Extension task - writing activity to deepen learning
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary - AOL

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.