1. Referencing the Text
3.RL.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.
Sometimes a story is about a lesson, or something the author wants us to learn.
We use the key details to find out the central message or lesson of the story.

2. Important Vocabulary recount: to narrate or tell in detail
central message: the big idea of a story
lesson: what the author wants the reader to learn from a story.
key details: important pieces of information that support the central message or lesson of a story.
moral: practical lesson taught in a fable or tale.

3. Focus Question
How do we use key details to determine the central message or a lesson of a story?

4. What is the theme that connects these items?

5. What is the theme that connects these items?

6. Now Lets Find the Common Theme in Text to determine the central message.
The Ants and The Grasshopper

7. What was the lesson of the story? What Key Details support your answer?

8. The Ant and the Grasshopper
Lesson:
You must work to live.
Key Details
The ants worked to collect grains.
The ants prepared for the winter.
The grasshoppers hop and play and say “we have fun everyday while you work everyday”.
The grasshoppers had to ask the ants for food to survive.

9. Let’s Try it Together ☺! We will read The Finish Line
We will read the questions and answer choices but we will not pick an answer yet.
We will write the question number in the text where we found the answer.
We will check our answers with our friends.
We will select the best answer.

10. Lets try it on our own ☺! You will read What Is Science Anyway?
You will read the questions and answer choices but will not pick an answer yet.
You will write the question number in the text where we found the answer.
You will select the best answer

11. What did we learn?
3.RL.2 * We can determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Sometimes a story is about a lesson, or something the author wants us to learn.
We use the key details to find out the central message or lesson of the story.