This guide will help teach your students to both identify and write about themes. By using the acronym TEE (yes, another acronym in teaching), your students will be able to easily construct, organize, and write strong paragraphs that will explain and support a theme. This document is also great for getting your students prepared for state testing as they typically are required to write short responses. The document includes:

• teacher guide on how to teach themes to your students
• 2 color-coded exemplars to use as a model for your students
• 2 graphic organizers (one has sentence starters and the other is blank)