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1st Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Resources

This story map will help organize students&#39; retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

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

Describe a Character

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 

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

Character Trading Card

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

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

Jack and the Beanstalk Story Map

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

Glossary: Asking Questions and Finding Answers

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Feelings Map

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Character Interview

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

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Character Puppets

This  Cinderella  story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and&hellip;

Cinderella Story Map

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Vocabulary Cards: Learn Story Elements

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Glossary: Finding the Key Details

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Vocabulary Cards: Asking Questions and Finding Answers

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Finding the Key Details

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

Rapunzel Story Map

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!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Vocabulary Cards: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

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.

Set the Scene

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Vocabulary Cards: Who are the Key Characters?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Glossary: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

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

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

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?

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

Glossary: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Vocabulary Cards: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

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

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