Learning to Look for the Topic

What is a Topic? A topic is a word or group of words that tells what something is about. For example, a friend might as you, “What is your book about?” Your friend doesn’t want to know EVERYTHING about the book. He just wants to know the topic. You would answer, “It’s about mountain climbing.”

Topic Sometimes the topic is the name for a group of things. football baseball tennis sports skiing carrots vegetables peas beans onions

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Topic Sometimes the topic is the name of something with many parts nose ears eyes mouth face chin mother sister uncle brother aunt family

Your Turn: What is the topic? dog elephant lion horse mouse music food people games laughing table chair chest sofa bed shirt skirt suit dress socks river lake ocean sea pond happy sad excited angry bored keyboard hard drive monitor mouse

Your Turn: Think of words that fit these topics Circus Parts of a school bus Grocery store Classroom