Mammals come in all shapes and sizes - as big as a human or as small as a mouse! Learn about the life cycle of a mouse with this cut and paste activity.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Help young Malcolm Mouse learn how to tell time on the half hour by circling the time shown on each clock.

Inspire your young learner with these pearls of wisdom from Mickey Rooney. This coloring page also doubles as a nice piece of wall art!

Help the cat reach her favorite toy in this fun and engaging maze worksheet!

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

Cut out and color these characters to mix and mash them up with scene cards to come up with different stories. What other characters can you come up with?

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Explore the circle of life with this informative coloring sheet! Help your student color and learn the names of each stage of a mouseâs life.

First graders will be eager to help the cats catch the mouse by solving this maze exercise! Draw a line through the mazes made up of four cats to the mouse.

Learn how to write Chinese calligraphy in this "water" worksheet. Learning Chinese characters is a great way to inspire your child's foreign language interests!

Children learn how to write the Chinese characters for a few favorite animals in this practice worksheet and template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

The Chinese character for "elephant" began as a picture of an elephant! Dive into the Chinese language and use this worksheet to learn how to write characters!

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

In this Chinese language worksheet, children identify the characters for different colors and then color them in accordingly.