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.

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.

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.

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What's the Moral?

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

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

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What's the Moral?

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

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

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

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

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

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

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

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!

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

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

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

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

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.

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.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

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