Grade 4 · Reading · Lesson 16

Discuss Lessons and Morals

A moral is the lesson a story teaches about how to act, treat others, or approach life. Morals are closely related to themes — but while a theme is a broader message about life, a moral is a specific lesson about behavior. Fables and folk tales often state the moral directly, but in longer stories the reader must infer it.

What this lesson teaches

1Identify the moral or lesson of a story from characters' actions and outcomes
2Express a story's moral in your own words
3Explain how the events of a story lead to its moral

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