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Theme: The Big Lesson of a Story

  • Grade 4
  • English Language Arts
  • 1 min 3 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC4-EN-05

A short fable shows Ant and Beetle failing to move a big seed alone, then rolling it home together. By comparing what happened alone with what happened together, the video finds the theme, "We can do more when we work together," and writes it under the fable in one sentence.

Concept: Theme: the big idea or lesson of a story

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

What is the big idea of a story?

Let's read a fable, a short story that teaches a lesson.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What is the big idea of a story?

Let's read a fable, a short story that teaches a lesson.

Ant could not move the big seed.

Beetle could not move it either.

So they pushed it together.

The seed rolled all the way home!

The big idea or lesson of a story is called its theme.

To find it, look at what changed in the story.

Alone, Ant and Beetle could not move the seed.

Together, they pushed the seed all the way home.

So what lesson does this fable teach?

We can do more when we work together.

This lesson is for all of us, not just for ants and beetles.

Now we write the lesson under the fable in one sentence.

The theme is a story's big lesson, and we can say it in one sentence.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 4

English Language Arts, Story/text: literary elementsBC4-EN-05

Previous: Story structure: the plot mountainNext: Imagery: Writing for the Five Senses

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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