Theme identification worksheet for students to practice identifying central messages in stories.

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.