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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 6: Story Summit · Level 49
Theme Through Growth
Explain how a theme shows in a character's growth or a conflict's resolution.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 49
- A topic is what a story is about, like honesty. A theme is what it says about that topic: honesty matters more than winning.
- Look at how a character grows, or how the conflict ends. What did the character learn? That's often the theme.
- Authors rarely state the theme. You infer it from what happens, and test it against the whole story.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.T.T.1.c — Explain how a theme is demonstrated through a character’s growth or conflict resolution. (I)