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Find the Moral is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on naming the lesson a fable is built to teach, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 18 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Find the Moral

RL.2.2

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Read the story, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lion and the Mouse

A lion lay sleeping in the sun. A mouse ran across his paw and woke him. The lion caught the mouse in one hand. "Please let me go," said the mouse. "One day I may help you." The lion laughed. How could a mouse help a lion? But he opened his hand. Weeks later the lion walked into a hunter's net. He roared and pulled, and the ropes only tightened. The mouse heard him. She came at once and gnawed the ropes, one strand at a time, until the lion could step free.

  1. 1. What is the moral of this fable?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What the Tide Left

Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools. Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead." Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had. She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."

  1. 1. What does this story show about wild creatures?

LessonPrint · RL.2.2 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Find the Moral

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A small friend can do what a strong lion cannot — the mouse gnawed the ropes his strength could not break.
  2. 2.1. Something is often better watched where it lives than taken away.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.