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What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

What Makes a Fantasy?

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.

What Would the Character Do?

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

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.

You Are a Character!

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Character Paper Dolls

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Step Inside the Story!

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

The Secret Garden 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

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

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

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

My Vacation (Part One)

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

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.

Craft Stick Story Elements

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

The Fox and the Crow

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

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

Book Characters

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Fiction Travel Brochure

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

Describe a Character

The next time you're having story time, be sure to use this fairy tale graphic organizer to boost comprehension!

Fairy Tale Graphic Organizer

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

Map a Story

Through this lesson, your students will use academic vocabulary to discuss character traits, author's purpose, and the sequence of events in a story.

Learn Story Elements

This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book *Tree of Cranes* by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.

Tree of Cranes

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn character traits and find them in a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Identifying Character Traits lesson.

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