Recount and paraphrase stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in text.
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.3.2
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE3RL2
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.RL.KID.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
RL.3.2
Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in a text. For example, students read versions of classic fables attributed to Aesop, discussing how the stories can be told differently, yet have the same moral. Then they read a collection of modern fables, told mostly in dialogue, by Arnold Lobel. Students practice reading the fables aloud in pairs to develop fluency and expression, and then write a script from a fable to perform. By the end of the unit, students can explain what fables are, why they have endured over thousands of years, and how they reflect human experience. (RL.3.2, RL.3.9, RF.3.4, W.3.10, L.3.6)
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3R2
Determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize
portions of a text. (RI&RL)
Ohio's Learning Standards:
RL.3.2
Analyze literary text development.
Determine a theme and explain how it is
conveyed through key details in the text.
Retell stories, including fables, folktales,
and myths from diverse cultures.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.3.2
Summarize portions of a text to determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details. (RI&RL)
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.3.A
Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E03.A-K.1.1.2
Recount poems, dramas, or stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
3rd 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.
Stories often have a message, lesson, or moral. Many fables, folktales, or myths teach us about life and the world through the characters and the events.
When identifying the message, lesson, or moral of the story, look for:
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 the bad effect of greed
Fable
A fable is a short story that teaches a moral lesson. It often has animals or objects that talk and act like people.
Folktale
A folktale is a made-up story that is passed on from one person to another.
Myth
A myth is a story that explains how something came to be. It usually has a superhuman hero or an event that is made up. A myth also explains something in nature, like how Earth was made.