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1st - 5th Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Worksheets

Practice identifying elements of a story in this simple sorting activity!

Sort the Story Elements

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold

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.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

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

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character&rsquo;s actions with their emotions.

Character Emotion Match Cards

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Story Elements in Sentences

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Folktales: The Princess Mouse

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

Book Characters

As students read&nbsp;R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s <em>Wonder</em>, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book&#39;s characters.

Novel Study: Wonder: Character Tracker

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

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.

Featured Character Postcard

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

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

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

The Crow and the Jug

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

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

If your child is doing a book report, help her learn more about the setting of her book with this worksheet.

Book Setting

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Reader’s Theater: The Snowman’s Day to Play

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

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

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel <em>Esperanza Rising</em>, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #1

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

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

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Reader’s Theater: Summertime Blues

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

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 

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

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