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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 6: Story Forest · Level 49
The Central Message
Find the lesson or moral of fables and folktales and connect it to what the characters did.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 49
- Many stories teach a lesson, called the central message or moral. Fables are short stories, often with animals, that teach a lesson. Many come from Aesop, a storyteller in ancient Greece.
- Read this fable. Watch what each character chooses, and what happens because of it.
- Grasshopper played all summer and had nothing to eat in winter. Ant worked and planned ahead. So the lesson is: work now and plan ahead for later.
- The message is a big idea for everyone, not just a fact from the story. Grasshopper played a fiddle is a detail. Plan ahead is the message.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.T.T.1.c — Describe characters’ traits, motivations, actions, thoughts, and feelings and explain their connection to the central message, lesson, or moral of the story. (I)