Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Start by comparing two short texts with obvious shared morals.

Provide theme sentence frames: "This text teaches that ___ because ___."

Theme = ___.
Answer: Life lesson.
Fables state a ___.
Answer: Moral.
Poems show theme through ___.
Answer: Images.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Find a fable and a story with the same theme and tell a grown-up how they differ.
Answer: Any.
Write a short poem with a theme about courage.
Answer: Any.