Theme and Story Elements

Where and when a story takes place

• Setting

• Location

• Characters

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

These are the people or things in a story

• Setting

• Nouns

• Characters

• Verbs

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

The series of events that make up a story

• Plot

• Characters

• Setting

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The most exciting/biggest part of a story

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The problem in the story

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Climax

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Theme is....

• The funny part

• The topic

• The moral/lesson

• The end

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

SLIME stands for...

• Super, Life, Ideas, Make, Exciting

• Subject, Lesson, Idea, Message, Evidence

• Sing, Laugh, Indent, Money, Espresso

• Signs, Language, Important, Man, Earth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Topic is the same as theme

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Theme is usually not stated directly

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Theme is an idea about life

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9