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Sum Up a Story in Order: Plot and Theme (Grade 5)

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Grade 5 Language · 5th Grade Reading Comprehension

Sum Up a Story in Order: Plot and Theme (Grade 5)

Summing up a story for Grade 5: read a made-up story about a girl alone in a lighthouse in a storm, find the problem, the climax, and the theme, choose the relevant details and leave out the rest, put four events in order, and write a summary with the plot, the theme, and the key details. With an answer key.

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Read stories and articles, quote the text to support an answer, summarize, find two or more main ideas, explain a theme, and compare characters, settings or events.

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  • Have the child read the questions first, then read the passage with them in mind.
  • Have the child underline the sentence that answers each question and write the paragraph number beside the answer.
  • For main idea questions, ask the child to say what the whole passage is about in one sentence.

Common mistakes

  • Giving a detail as the main idea. A main idea is what the whole passage is about, not one paragraph.
  • Treating an inference question as a "find it" question. The answer is not written; the clues are.
  • Mixing up the lesson of a story with what happens in it. The lesson is what a character learns.

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