Theme identification worksheet for students to analyze and describe central messages in a story.

A worksheet titled "What is the Theme?" with a definition of theme and a list of common themes such as courage, faith, family, friendship, growing up, hope, prejudice, success, trust, truth, violence, unhappiness, war, death, patriotism, love, identity, independence, loyalty, and persistence. Students are instructed to circle the top three themes that relate to a given text and write a paragraph describing how these themes relate to the text.