Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

See reading in a new light in this snowy fantasy story!

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.