RL.3.3 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
:"Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events."
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Glossary: Characters and Dialogue
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Glossary: Characters and Dialogue
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.
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Vocabulary Cards: Evidence of Character Changes
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Vocabulary Cards: Evidence of Character Changes
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Evidence of Character Changes.
3rd Grade
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Glossary: Evidence of Character Changes
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Glossary: Evidence of Character Changes
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Evidence of Character Changes.
3rd Grade
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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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The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
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The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.
3rd 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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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.
3rd Grade
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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects
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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects
Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.
3rd Grade
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Glossary: Describe Character Actions in Order
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Glossary: Describe Character Actions in Order
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.
3rd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Describe Character Actions in Order
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Vocabulary Cards: Describe Character Actions in Order
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.
3rd Grade
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Looking at Character Actions
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Looking at Character Actions
Use this resource to teach your students to pick out character actions from the text as they answer questions.
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Glossary: Verbs that Show Character Action
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Glossary: Verbs that Show Character Action
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.
3rd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Verbs that Show Character Action
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Vocabulary Cards: Verbs that Show Character Action
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.
3rd Grade
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Book Casting Call
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Book Casting Call
Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.
5th Grade
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Book Characters
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Book Characters
If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.
3rd Grade
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Heroes and Villains
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Heroes and Villains
Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.
3rd 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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Character Study: Split Mind Graphic Organizer
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Character Study: Split Mind Graphic Organizer
Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.
3rd Grade
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Concept Web: Character Traits
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Concept Web: Character Traits
Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.
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Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat
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Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat
Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.
3rd Grade
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1
This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.
3rd Grade
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2
Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.
3rd Grade
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3
Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.
3rd Grade
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4
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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4
Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.
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The Selfish Giant
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The Selfish Giant
Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.
3rd Grade
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The Shiniest Apple: Cause & Effect
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The Shiniest Apple: Cause & Effect
Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.
2nd Grade
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Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
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Reading for Comprehension: More Cause and Effect
How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.
3rd Grade
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Fiction Travel Brochure
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Fiction Travel Brochure
Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.
3rd Grade
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Cool Bookmarks 1
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Cool Bookmarks 1
Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!
3rd Grade
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Timeline Organizer
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Timeline Organizer
Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.
4th Grade
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