Name: Moral of the Story Graphic Organizer
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This resource is a Moral of the Story Graphic Organizer.

Students can use this graphic organizer when they are reading a text.

It allows students to write out the plot of the story.

At the bottom, students will write what they think is the moral of the story and they can provide text evidence to support it.

This can be printed in color or black and white.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Summarize a story's plot by separating its Beginning, Middle and End into distinct parts.
State the moral, lesson or central message of a story.
Support a stated moral with specific evidence drawn from the text.

Model the plot boxes with a familiar fable before discussing its moral.
Ask students to explain how their selected evidence supports the lesson they identified.
Use the organizer for a partner discussion before an independent response.

Plot sequencing — students separate a story into its Beginning, Middle and End in three distinct labeled spaces (pages 1-2).
Theme/moral identification — students state what they judge to be the moral of the story in a dedicated Moral column (pages 1-2).
Evidence-based reasoning — students cite specific text evidence to support the moral they identified, using the paired Text Evidence column (pages 1-2).

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