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This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Use these thought-provoking prompts to reflect on the plot, characters, and themes in Louis Sachar’s Holes!

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.

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!

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

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.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

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

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Read a classic fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", with your young reader.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

How hard could it be to get rid of a cursed treasure chest? Your fifth grader will enjoy making up a story to go along with this illustration!

Invite your learners to dive into the world of creative writing with this fun Independence Day writing prompt!  

The classic children's fable "Stone Soup" is all about sharing! Share this story with your young reader to build basic comprehension skills.