Please find the full 44 page resource attached.  The resource includes:15 Projects for any novel that revolve around:character traitsgenreplotthemesetting and moodvocabularyProjects include:notesprintable activitiesgraphic oganizersteachable videosThinklinkScratch codingbook tastingSoundtrap music makerand more! 

To fully explore theme, students must understand what they read and then extract ideas from the text. Here are 11 tips to help your students understand theme as they read.

Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine. Stories are used to discuss methods of managing and resolving conflict and interpersonal friction. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world — concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.

Includes organizers to: interpret, examine themes, make inferences, summarize and analyze.
Grades 5 to 8.

Lesson plan that includes a slideshow on theme, situational irony and foreshadowing with a strategy spotlight on context clues. Literary connections between W. W. Jacobs' short story, "The Monkey's Paw" and an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This PeBL yearly plan includes the 7Cs as well as your overall theme and major subject areas.

Even though determining a text’s theme is an expectation from grades 1-12, many educators wrestle with how to teach this ELA standard—and plenty more students wrestle with how to figure it out.

To help students master inferring a text’s theme, teachers must make this abstract concept concrete and explicit. Here are three facets to an introductory lesson series.