Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

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

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

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.

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

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

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.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

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.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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!

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.

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

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

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

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.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

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

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.