Our Moral Bingo activity is the perfect choice to help your students recognise that narratives are used for the purpose of entertaining the reader and teaching them valuable lessons. It is important for students to understand that authors use characters to deliver these important messages through their thoughts, words and actions.

To complete this task, we recommend taking your students to the library or having a collection of books available in the classroom. Each student will require a copy of the Moral Bingo worksheet. They will hunt for stories that teach different morals, as listed on the page, and record their titles and either a summary or drawing of the story. In order to fill in as much of their bingo board as possible, encourage students to focus on shorter texts, such as picture books or texts that they have previously read.

We have included multiple versions of this task to suit the needs of your class.