RL.2.3 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
:"Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges."
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun
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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun
Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.
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The Fox and the Crow
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The Fox and the Crow
Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.
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Story Elements Map
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Story Elements Map
This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.
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Pair the Cause and Effect
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Pair the Cause and Effect
Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.
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Identifying Cause and Effect
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Identifying Cause and Effect
Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.
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Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot
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Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot
Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.
2nd Grade
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Language Frames: Character Changes
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Language Frames: Character Changes
Use this simple template to identify a character's feelings, challenges, and resolution throughout a text.
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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat
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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat
Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Emily's Turtle
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Emily's Turtle
This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
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Glossary: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
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Vocabulary Cards: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
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Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
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Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Fairy Tale Character Traits
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Glossary: Fairy Tale Character Traits
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Fairy Tale Character Traits
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Vocabulary Cards: Fairy Tale Character Traits
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story
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Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Map a Story
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Glossary: Map a Story
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.
2nd Grade
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Cause and Effect for Kids
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Cause and Effect for Kids
Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.
1st Grade
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What is Cause and Effect?
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What is Cause and Effect?
Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.
1st Grade
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Character Comparison Graphic Organizer
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Character Comparison Graphic Organizer
Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.
4th Grade
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Creating a Community Story and Mobile
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Creating a Community Story and Mobile
After reading a story about community, students will use this worksheet to create a mobile that illustrates and describes the many aspects of living in healthy relationships within communities.
2nd Grade
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.
2nd Grade
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Tall Tale Characters
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Tall Tale Characters
Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.
2nd Grade
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Compare the Characters
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Compare the Characters
Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.
2nd Grade
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Describe a Character
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Describe a Character
Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.
2nd Grade
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Character Trading Card
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Character Trading Card
Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.
2nd Grade
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Reading Comprehension: Cause and Effect
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Reading Comprehension: Cause and Effect
Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.
2nd Grade
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Story Mountain
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Story Mountain
Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.
2nd Grade
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Story Tree
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Story Tree
This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. Challenge your readers by having them fill in this graphic organizer with their story’s setting, characters, problem, and solution.
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Character Changes
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Character Changes
Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.
2nd Grade
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