Doing Right When No One Is Watching: The Moral of a Story for Class 6

This Grade 6 literature worksheet helps students understand what a moral is — the lesson or guiding principle a story communicates through its characters' choices — and how to identify it from events, dialogue, and resolution. Through the story of Meera, a Class 6 student from Jaipur who finds a lost purse containing medicine money at the school book fair and must choose between temptation and honesty, students discover how a moral is not just a sentence at the end of a story, but a choice that defines character. Five warm and engaging exercises develop comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar skills together.

Why the Moral of a Story Matters in Literature?

Morals have shaped storytelling across cultures for thousands of years — because stories are how we teach values. For Grade 6 learners, this topic is important because:
1. The moral is the core lesson a story teaches about right and wrong, fairness, courage, or kindness.
2. Unlike theme (a broad idea), a m-oral offers specific guidance — often stated or clearly implied at the story's end.
3. Identifying morals develops ethical reasoning, empathy, and the ability to connect literature to real life.
4. This skill is foundational for literary analysis, values education, and understanding traditional tales and fables.

What's Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes five exercises that build moral identification and grammar skills together:

Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students answer questions about Meera's story, identifying what guided her decision, what the moral of the story is, and how honesty is shown through action rather than words.

Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks
Students complete ten sentences using a word bank from the story, reinforcing vocabulary and understanding of key events.

Exercise 3 – True or False
Students read ten statements and decide whether each is true or false, testing factual recall and careful reading.

Exercise 4 – Underline and write the context
Students analyze sentence structure and meaning by identifying key components and placing them within a broader story or thematic context.

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Fill in the Blanks (Context Clues)
Students fill in blanks in a summary paragraph using context clues — without a word bank. This challenges deeper inference and comprehension.

Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
1. c) stairwell.
2. a) kindness.
3. b) announcer.
4. c) hesitant.
5. b) medicines.
6. c) honesty.
7. a) thankfully.
8. b) being trusted.
9. a) kindness.
10. a) Kindness tops money.

Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks
1. stairwell
2. medicines
3. announcer
4. hesitated
5. fairness
6. book stall
7. returned
8. kindness
9. thoughtful
10. relieved

Exercise 3 – True or False
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. False

Exercise 4 – Underline the key phrase and write the context
Answers will depend on personal perspective and may vary. (Hint:- Identify the "who, what, when, and where" of the scene.)

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Fill in the Blanks (Context Clues)
1. stairwell
2. medicines
3. tempted / hesitant
4. honesty / integrity
5. relieved / grateful
6. story / reputation
7. honest / fair

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