Thematic Statement Test Placement

Thematic Statement

• Include evidence to support the claim as the author intended message.

• Tells the most important info about the text, without being bias.

• Most important who or what

  Important information

  Gist

• Main idea of a text (Can contain text specific info).

Evidence

• Supporting Details to support your claim.

• Your claim

• A genre of a short story

• Something that describes the tag it

Topic

• One word subject that the text addresses.

• The main point of the story/article

• The central idea of the story.

Central Idea

• The point in the story/article

• The message/moral of the story

Theme

• The evidence that supports your claim

• The moral of the story/ main take away from the story/article.

Inference

• An educated guess

• A hypothesis

• A guess that does not support you claim but does include text evidence

When you pick a part of the text and see how the author uses that to see how it affects the reader.

• Analysis

• Observation

• Inference

• All of the above

The moral/ or takeaway from the story. Universal lesson or messages (does not include text specific info).

• Theme

• Central Idea

• Thematic Statement

Objective summary

• The most important parts of the story, with text specific information.

• The most important parts of the story without text specific information.

A claim is a statement, but you have to back it up to prove it's true.

• True

• False