Identify the central message or moral of a story.
Identify the theme in myths, fables, and folktales.
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RL.2
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.2.2
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RL2
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.RL.KID.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
RL.2.2
Retell stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
2R2
Identify a main topic or central idea and retell key details in a text; summarize portions of a text.
(RI&RL)
Ohio's Learning Standards:
RL.2.2
Analyze literary text development.
Determine the lesson or moral.
Retell stories, including fables and
folktales from diverse cultures.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.2.2
Summarize portions of a text in order to identify a main topic or central idea and key details in a text. (RI&RL)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.6*
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.6.A*
identify moral lessons as themes in well-known fables, legends, myths, or stories
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.6.B*
compare different versions of the same story in traditional and contemporary folktales with respect to their characters, settings, and plot
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.2.A
Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2nd Grade Reading - Messages, Lessons, and Morals Lesson
Message, Lesson, or Moral
A story's message, lesson, or moral is the idea the author wants the reader to learn from a story.
Many stories have a message, lesson, or moral. The characters and what they do teach the reader a lesson.
Look for these things to help you understand the message, lesson, or moral of the story:
the right or the wrong thing a character does or says
what a character learns from his/her own or others’ mistakes
the main idea of the story, like helping people in need
2nd Grade Reading - Messages, Lessons, and Morals Lesson