Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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

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

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

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

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Your cartoon-crazed creative kid gets to decide what the cool cartoon characters say.

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

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

Learn just a few adjectives for people with this worksheet that matches words to characters and works on vocabulary development,