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.

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.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

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

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.

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.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

"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.

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.

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

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

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

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

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

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

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

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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.