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Elementary School Common Core Analyze Characters Resources : Page 3

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Heroes and Villains

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

Book Script

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Character Actions

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Setting

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Sum It Up: Vocabulary

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

The Beginnning of the Armadillos

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Jack and the Beanstalk Story Map

Use this Venn diagram to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting characters.

Compare & Contrast Fairy Tale Characters

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Glossary: Asking Questions and Finding Answers

Here&#39;s a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

The Story of Orion

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Feelings Map

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Character Interview

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Glossary: Character Comparisons

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

The Wizard of Oz Setting

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Protagonists and Supporting Characters

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Picture Book Pumpkin Creations

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it&#39;s missing text.

Fill in the Story

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

The Tain

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Character Traits

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Story Slide

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Featured Character Postcard

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Glossary: Making Text Connections

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Vocabulary Cards: Scary Story Elements

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Character Puppets

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Conflict

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