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1st - 4th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets : Page 2

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Describing Characters, Settings, and Events

Children will read this Reader&#39;s Theater script, then answer&nbsp;questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Reader’s Theater: Fourth of July

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Glossary: Discovering Character Traits

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Comparing Characters

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.

Story Roadmap

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

Character Trading Card

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Reading Comprehension: Lulu’s Grades

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

Glossary: Scary Story Elements

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

Concept Web: Character Traits

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

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

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

Use this Valentine&#39;s Day reader&#39;s theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Reader’s Theater: My Special Valentine

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Peter Pan Analysis 1

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

Heroes and Villains

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!

Character Actions

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Setting

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

Sum It Up: Vocabulary

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

The Beginnning of the Armadillos

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Jack and the Beanstalk Story Map

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

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

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Glossary: Asking Questions and Finding Answers

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