https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/4th-grade-reading-and-vocab/xe0e52cf20ce2546d:key-ideas-and-details-4/xe0e52cf20ce2546d:determining-theme-and-summarizing-a-story-4/a/finding-the-theme-of-a-story-4th 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Finding the theme of a story | Guided practice Learn how to find a story's theme—the message the story reveals about life or the world. article https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/5th-grade-reading-and-vocab/xb350e60168d6e96f:key-ideas-and-details-5/xb350e60168d6e96f:determining-theme-5/v/g4-summarizing-swbst 2025-06-24T18:30:47.167909514Z Summarizing a story with SWBST Have you ever struggled to summarize a story? Well, friends, I'm coming to you today with a sensational new thought technology, and by Jove, has it ever got a catchy name. It's... SWBST. Okay, maybe not the easiest to say aloud, but it's a very useful tool to summarize what happens in a story! SWBST stands for: Someone Wanted But So Then David Rheinstrom video https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka_thumbnails_cache/8c80fcaa-6bb3-4e22-9b31-d02b300a7a4d_1280_720_base.png Summarizing a story with SWBST Have you ever struggled to summarize a story? Well, friends, I'm coming to you today with a sensational new thought technology, and by Jove, has it ever got a catchy name. It's... SWBST. Okay, maybe not the easiest to say aloud, but it's a very useful tool to summarize what happens in a story! SWBST stands for: Someone Wanted But So Then https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/6oPWYnYJWZs.mp4/6oPWYnYJWZs.mp4 171 Determining theme and summarizing a story https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/4th-grade-reading-and-vocab/xe0e52cf20ce2546d:key-ideas-and-details-4/xe0e52cf20ce2546d:determining-theme-and-summarizing-a-story-4/e/theme-and-summary-4 2025-12-08T18:40:52.655280662Z Theme and summary Practice Hannah Chorley exercise