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Theme Theater
Comprehension Lessons »
- Analyze Character, Setting, and Plot
- Retell a Story
- Identify an Unstated Main Idea
- Main Idea Sentences
- Identify Problem and Solution
- Find a Solution
- Summarize
- The Summary Game
- Make Comparisons
- What’s the Difference?
- Listen for the Facts
- Analyze Author’s Purpose
- What’s Your Purpose?
- Make Inferences and Analyze
- Follow All Clues
- Cause-and-Effect Relationships
- Cause and Effect Buildup
- Order of Events
- Instructions in Chronological Order
- Draw Conclusions
- Play Detective
- Make and Analyze Predictions
- Can You Make a Prediction?
- Chronological Order of Events
- Directions Out of Order
- Identify Theme
- Theme Theater
- Identify Facts and Details
- It Looks and Sounds Good
- Make Judgments
- You Be the Judge
- Draw Conclusions
- Color Me Hidden
Materials construction paper, scissors
Explain Remind students that the theme of a story is its essential message, or what the author wants readers to learn. Tell students that they will decide on a theme and plan a skit about it.
Guided Practice/Practice Have students work with partners to brainstorm the theme of a skit where at least one character is transformed. Encourage them to make simple masks from construction paper for their characters as they plan their skits. Remind them to include dialogue and actions in their skits. Characters who get transformed should have at least two masks to represent the transformation. Give students time to rehearse and then perform their skits for the class.