1st - 3rd Grade Theme Resources

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.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

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

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

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.