Improve your students' ability to write about the theme of any text!
What’s Included in This Free Organizer:
- Structured Brainstorming: Guided paragraph brainstorming notes to help students formulate a topic sentence, summary, and concluding statement.
- Evidence & Citation Practice: Prompts that require students to provide a quote that illustrates the theme and cite it in MLA format.
- Crucial Writing Reminders: Reinforces essential writing rules, such as the fact that a quote cannot stand alone as a sentence and needs to be introduced.
- Analysis Sentence Frames: Provides helpful scaffolding, including fill-in-the-blank frames to help students explain how an event helps reveal the novel's theme.