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2nd and 3rd Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

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

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

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

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

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

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

Book Characters

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Character Traits: The Princess and the Pea

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

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

Describe a Character

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

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

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.

"The Three Little Pigs" Character Study

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

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

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

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 

Ask students questions about  "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat

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.

Character Reactions

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

Book Setting

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

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

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.

Character Changes

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

Character Trading Card

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

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

Concept Web: Character Traits

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

Character Changes Order

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

My Vacation (Part One)

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

The Selfish Giant

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Close Reading in Fiction

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

Reading Comprehension: Lulu’s Grades

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.

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