Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Introduce readers to the poem “Impressions” by American poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Discover how small acts can create lasting change with this sixth- and seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Read, reflect, and uncover the lesson behind the story with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension 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!