This week, we worked finding the theme of fiction texts using the skill of close reading. Students have had multiple opportunities to read a text, analyze, discuss and write about the theme of the text to prepare for Friday's assessment.
Below are the standards we are working very hard to address in class this week and next:
RI, RL 6.2 Use key ideas and details to determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.
We ALWAYS, ALWAYS require textual evidence, and grade it on this standard:
RI, RL 6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI = "reading informational" non-fiction
RL = "reading literature" fiction
Anchor chart from class on close reading
Anchor chart from class on theme
Anchor chart on how to write a constructed response
Anchor chart from class on a model constructed response
