1. Learning to Look for the Topic

2. 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.”

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

4. Topic

5. Topic

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

7. 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

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