HAVE YOU BEEN TEACHING THEME WRONG?

Maybe.  I was.  For a long time.

And my students struggled because of it.  I’d asked students the classic prompting questions like What did the character learn?  or What was the problem that the character was facing? — all good questions.  However when we ask our students to take the giant leap from answering those prompts to identifying theme, we lose them.

What they really need is the bridge to get from the prompt to theme.  A repeatable formula that breaks the process of finding theme in literature into simple steps.

And - I’ve got that formula for you today!  When I started using this theme-finding formula with my students…it WORKED!  Like, really worked.  Students were able to identify theme and support it using evidence from the text.  It was like magic.

I want your students to be able to do the same so I’m sharing all the details on today’s podcast.  It’s must-listen episode for any upper elementary reading teacher.

For complete show notes, visit, classroomnook.com/podcast/70

LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

LINKtivity: Story Mountain 

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

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