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Showing Results for characters settings and events

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while they have fun.

Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Connect the Events

It's time to saddle up for the Olympics! Learn more about the equestrian events at the Olympics with this reading worksheet.

Olympic Equestrian Events

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Drawing Characters

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Book Characters

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Sequence of Events

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

A Christmas Carol: Characters

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.

My Story's Characters

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

Compare the Characters

Learn the basics of summary and identifying the order of events — then try your hand at it!

Summarizing and Order of Events

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

Tall Tale Characters

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.

Compare Characters

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

Protagonists and Supporting Characters

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater* lesson.

Characters and Dialogue

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

Vocabulary Cards: Characters and Dialogue

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Story Brainstorm: Big Events

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

Strong narratives have clear sequences of events. Through this lesson, students plan out what will happen in their story before they start writing their own engaging narratives. 

Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

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

Glossary: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters

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

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Choice Storyboard

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Cut and Paste: Sequencing Story Events

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Can You Make an Inference?

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

Compare Two Characters

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.

Narrative Writing: Describe Characters

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

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.

Characters' Points of View

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

Vocabulary Cards: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters

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