FICTION
Some of these guides use the term "main idea" instead of theme --
NWEA uses main idea at several levels in the fiction skills it measures.
Advanced Picture Planner to Communicate a Theme
What is the theme of the story? Spanish
Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme
Identify and support the theme of a story
Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story
I Can Infer the Moral or Message of a Fable
I Can Infer the theme of a Story
I Can Infer the theme in a Story—one page postable questions
Advanced Picture Planner to Communicate a Theme
Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme
Identify and support the theme of a story
Construct a play based on a story to understand how the writer constructs it to communicate the theme.
Expand Thinking with Drama English / Spanish
Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story
POETRY
Draw to Show the Theme of a Story or Poem
NONFICTION
Challenge, Choice, Changes: Tenochtitlan
I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read (Primary)
I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read
I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read -- a guided example
Paragraph Reader--I can identify the main idea
Get It Together—Show What’s Important English / Spanish
I Can Infer the Main Idea of a Passage
Paragraph Reader: I Can Infer the Main Idea
Nonfiction Main Idea Developers
I can infer the main idea of a history
Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction
Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish
Identify, Analyze, Infer the Main Idea
Constructed Response Exercise-Main Idea
I can Infer the Main Idea 2 with related writing
A Way to Analyze Paragraphs to Figure Out the Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text
Identify the Main Idea--NONFICTION
Main Idea Analyzer
Answer the Big Question with Evidence
Answer the Big Question with Citation of Evidence
I Can Infer the Main Idea of a History
Get It Together—Show What’s Important English / Spanish
I Can Infer the Main Idea of a Passage
I Can Infer the Main Idea of a History
Native Americans' Perceptions of Nature--Analyze, Evaluate, Construct
I can comprehend a paragraph, then a page/section in a text
Paragraph Reader: I Can Infer the Main Idea
I Can Identify and Support the Main Idea in Nonfiction—one page postable questions
Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish
Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction passage
Students need to be able to identify the central idea and the supporting ideas
--a nonfiction text includes one central idea and related main ideas.
Artists' Ideas about Art figure out central ideas grades 6-12
Expand Thinking with Drama English / Spanish Can apply to history or fictioin.
Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story or HISTORY
Jahn student identifies and supports the theme of a chapter in The Phantom Tollbooth.