Theme Lesson and Activities Concrete & Engaging Comprehension Crew
$7.75
Tia is a florist who helps readers see how the little details come together to send an overall message.
Are you looking for a fun and engaging to teach theme? Here it is! This resource is full of lessons, activities, and theme passages for you to teach identifying theme!
This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach finding the theme to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.
Tia The Theme Tracker will help you teach theme to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. She brings together all the details to see the message of the text.
This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice finding the theme. Google slides version is available!
*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program
The resource includes the following:
- Character Posters & Visual Aids
- Character Profile– includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
- Concrete Theme Activity
- Introduction & Modeling Theme Lesson Plan– can be applied to any book
- Teacher Implementation Tips
- Theme Graphic Organizers– 20 differentiated options for any text
- Flip Books– 4 options that can be used with any text
- Interactive Notebook
- Task Cards with Photographs– includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
- Theme Task Cards with Short Text– includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
- Practice Theme Passages– differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included
- Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books
What is the Comprehension Crew?
Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, song, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.
Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?
There are characters representing each of the following fiction reading skills:
• connecting– TRY FOR FREE!
Non-fiction reading skills:
Teacher Reviews
2nd grade teacher Marissa said, “This resource has been really helpful in my class when teaching Theme. This is often a concept that my students struggle with a lot and all of the posters have been super helpful to have up on my ELA board for them to refer back too.”
4th grade teacher Angela said, “Great supplemental to use with my self contained class while teaching theme. Images were clear and they were easy to understand.”
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