Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

A passage from The Velveteen Rabbit to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?