Moral of the Story Graphic Organizer

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.

Use one of the two identical copies as a color version and the other as a black-and-white version, since the layout repeats exactly across both pages (pages 1-2).

Model filling out the Beginning/Middle/End plot boxes with a familiar story before asking students to state the moral, since the plot section is positioned above the moral section.

Pair this organizer with fables, folktales or other morals-driven texts, since the template is built specifically around identifying and supporting a story's moral rather than general comprehension.

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).