Theme Worksheet
Theme List
Students also
ask, "Is there a list of
Students often ask, "How can I find the
common themes?"
theme of a story?"
While there are as
Definition
many themes in
children's literature as
Themes are BIG Ideas, like friendship, love and
there are BIG Ideas,
courage. Themes are NOT the events, or actions in
some common themes
the story; however, you can infer the theme from the are:
actions.
friendship
love
Example
cooperation
courage/bravery
When a friend stands up for another friend in a
loyalty
story, we can infer from their actions that two
family
themes in the story are friendship and courage.
determination
anger
Your Turn
loneliness
teamwork/working
A good place to look for themes is the actions of the
together
main character. See if you can complete the Theme
fairness/unfairness
Worksheet.
self-respect
self-control
racism/sexism
achieving your full
potential
keeping traditions alive
importance of
imagination
being different
conformity
taking a stand
Challenge: See how
many more themes you
can add to the list!
THEME WORKSHEET
DEFINITION: Themes are BIG Ideas, like friendship, love and
courage. Themes are NOT the events, or actions in the story;
however, you can infer the theme from the actions.
EXAMPLE: When a friend stands up to a bully for another
friend in a story, we can infer from their actions that two
themes in the story are friendship and courage.
Your A good place to look for themes is the actions of the main character. See if
Turn you can complete the Theme Worksheet.
Based on __________________________________________
(an important action by the main character)
and _____________________________________________,
(a related action by the main character)
I infer that one theme in ____________________________ is
(title of the story)
____________________________________.
(theme)
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