Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
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resources for those 'aha' moments
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#SUMitUP Summary Activity
Summarize fictional text through this whole-class station activity.
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What's the Theme? - Graphic Organizer
Outline and determine the theme of a text with this 1-page graphic organizer worksheet.
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Finding the Theme Worksheet
Identify and explain the theme in 3 short story paragraphs provided in this worksheet.
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Summarizing Graphic Organizer
A chart to practice using the SWBST strategy to write a summary for a fictional piece of text.
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The Loudest Sound in the World – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with a literary text about a princess who demands to hear the loudest sound in the world.
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Reading Response Templates - Complete Journal
A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.
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Reading Response Template – Summarizing
A reading response template for students to use to summarize a piece of text.
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Reading Response Template - Personal Review
A reading response template for students to write a personal review of a piece of text.
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Design Your Own Book Cover Worksheet
A worksheet that encourages students to create a book cover including a blurb on the back.
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Grade 6 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 6 magazine.
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Novel Study - Create a New Cover Worksheet
A worksheet that encourages students to create a new book cover for a shared class or independent novel.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Summarizing
A 14-slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of summarizing.
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Summarizing a Fiction Text - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to help students summarize a fiction text.
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QR Code Reading Comprehension Strategy Question Cubes
A set of QR code question cubes to use when working with reading comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension Paper Fortune Teller
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
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Newspaper Themed - Book Report Template and Poster
A fun newspaper themed poster with 3 book report templates to use when responding to literature.
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Summarizing A Fiction Text – Activity and Bookmark
A teaching resource to help teach your students to summarize a fiction text.
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Summarizing a Nonfiction Text - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to help students summarize a nonfiction text.
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Five Finger Summary - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use to summarize a fiction text.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Summarizing
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of summarizing.
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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Grade 5 and Grade 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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The Poet's Lament
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore their preconceived ideas and attitudes towards poetry.
