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- Year 4
Exploring themes in 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'
I can identify and justify the key themes in ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’.
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- Year 4
Exploring themes in 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'
I can identify and justify the key themes in ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- The themes of 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' include resilience, heroism, collaboration and courage.
- A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story.
- Texts often have a theme, or big idea, which is repeated through the story.
- Readers can interpret their own big idea or message from a narrative.
- Different readers may interpret a text in different ways.
Keywords
Theme - A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story.
Recurring - Recurring means something that appears repeatedly.
Convey - To convey means to communicate a message to the reader directly or indirectly.
Analyse - To analyse something means to examine it in detail in order to understand it.
Justify - To justify means to show or prove something using evidence.
Common misconception
Pupils might think that a text only has one theme or main idea.
Texts often contain multiple layers of meaning and can address various themes simultaneously. They will be personal to each reader.
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Equipment
You will need a copy of the 2016 Flying Eye Books edition of 'Arthur and the Golden Rope', written and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, for this lesson.
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