1. Silent reading time...what??
Then Journals….YAS!!!

2. Summary
Language to look for

3. What should go in a summary?
Title and Author
Characters mentioned by name
Main Conflict and resolution
The central idea
How the central idea is developed

4. Summary Should be short and to the point
Should NOT be longer than your analysis
Should not contain any personal opinion.

5. Main Conflict and Resolution
The main problem of the story (not the sub plots)

6. Theme vs. Central Idea

7. What is central idea?
CENTRAL IDEA refers to what the text is mainly about.
Central idea is NOT the topic of the text.
Central idea can most often be stated in one sentence.

8. Application
Tim hated his old baseball glove. He wanted to play with a new glove, but he didn’t have any money, so he decided to steal it. But when Tim got caught stealing the glove, his parents said he couldn’t play baseball all summer.
What is the topic of this paragraph?
What is the central idea of this paragraph?

9. What is theme?
Theme is the life lesson, author’s message, or moral of a story.
Readers have to make inferences to determine themes in literature because themes are NOT directly stated.
In order to determine the theme of a story, readers have to think beyond the small details. Instead, readers must figure out the big world lesson of the theme.

10. What is theme? Theme IS NOT the same as central idea.
Theme IS NOT the same as topic.
One story can have multiple themes.
Themes are often recognizable and repeated throughout literature.

11. Central idea is “what does the text say”
Theme is “What is the text trying to teach me”