This medium-level worksheet has students fill in blanks, and match items from two columns to practice theme in literature skills.
It includes 10 questions across 2 sections for focused practice.
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Theme in Literature
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. In a fable, the theme is often stated directly as the moral at the end of the story.
2. The fable of the ant and the grasshopper teaches that planning during good times prepares you for hard times.
3. Folktales from different countries often share universal themes because people everywhere face similar challenges.
4. In the story of the boy who cried wolf, the theme is that people lose trust when they lie repeatedly.
5. Unlike modern stories, fables usually use animals as characters to represent human qualities.
6. A folktale about a greedy king who loses everything teaches the theme that greed leads to loss.
7. The theme of a fable is not just what happens but the deeper lesson about human behavior.
8. A story where a small mouse saves a mighty lion shows that even the smallest creature can make a big difference.
9. When readers connect a fable's moral to their own experiences, they are applying the theme to real life.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each fable or folktale summary to its theme.
A dog drops his bone in the water trying to grab the reflection of a bigger bone.
→ Being greedy for what others have may cause you to lose what you own.
Gentle persuasion is more powerful than force.
A crow uses pebbles to raise the water level in a pitcher so it can drink.
→ Creative thinking can solve problems that strength cannot.
Greed for more can cost you everything you already have.
A wind and the sun compete to remove a traveler's coat; the sun wins with warmth.
→ Gentle persuasion is more powerful than force.
Creative thinking can solve problems that strength cannot.
A farmer kills his golden-egg goose hoping to find all the gold inside at once.
→ Greed for more can cost you everything you already have.
Being greedy for what others have may cause you to lose what you own.
Theme in Literature
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) In a fable, the theme is often stated directly as the moral at the end of the story.
2) The fable of the ant and the grasshopper teaches that planning during good times prepares you for hard times.
3) Folktales from different countries often share universal themes because people everywhere face similar challenges.
4) In the story of the boy who cried wolf, the theme is that people lose trust when they lie repeatedly.
5) Unlike modern stories, fables usually use animals as characters to represent human qualities.
6) A folktale about a greedy king who loses everything teaches the theme that greed leads to loss.
7) The theme of a fable is not just what happens but the deeper lesson about human behavior.
8) A story where a small mouse saves a mighty lion shows that even the smallest creature can make a big difference.
9) When readers connect a fable's moral to their own experiences, they are applying the theme to real life.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each fable or folktale summary to its theme.
A dog drops his bone in the water trying to grab the reflection of a bigger bone.
→ Being greedy for what others have may cause you to lose what you own.
Gentle persuasion is more powerful than force.
A crow uses pebbles to raise the water level in a pitcher so it can drink.
→ Creative thinking can solve problems that strength cannot.
Greed for more can cost you everything you already have.
A wind and the sun compete to remove a traveler's coat; the sun wins with warmth.
→ Gentle persuasion is more powerful than force.
Creative thinking can solve problems that strength cannot.
A farmer kills his golden-egg goose hoping to find all the gold inside at once.
→ Greed for more can cost you everything you already have.
Being greedy for what others have may cause you to lose what you own.
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