Comprehension Lessons on Identifying Themes when Reading KS2

Teach your class how to identify and explain themes within stories when reading. This pack includes 5 lessons, the week’s plan, a 75 slide PowerPoint, 5 short engaging texts, differentiated activities, starters and plenaries.

Use the detailed Powerpoint which leads your class through 5 lessons on themes so they are confident and independent with identifying themes when reading.

Small extracts of the texts are used as a guided model to support and scaffold pupils before their independent work.

Engage your class with the quick and relevant starter activities which build their vocabulary and consolidate their understanding of themes.

Identifying Themes Pack

• Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one.
• All of the texts are provided, a range of interesting genres and styles.
• Modeled answers to comprehension assessment questions are included.
• Written and detailed plan included .

Prompt higher order thinking skills using the questions and activities designed to develop comprehension skills and enhance reading assessment results.

Include and challenge every child with the main activities which fit children of all learning styles.
Cover these teaching points:

1. What themes are.
2. How and why we can group themes.
3. How we can find themes.
4. How to use inference to find themes.
5. How to explain themes.
6. How to use evidence to prove your themes.
7. How to use 4 different types of evidence as proof.

Quickly print the differentiated resources for four groups of children (green LA, yellow M/LA, blue MA, red HA).

Summarise and extend each lesson using the plenaries planned for everyday.

All reviews are welcome.

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