3rd Grade Analyze Characters Resources

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.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!

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

We all know the classic fairy tale, and now you have a chance to put your own spin on the story of Cinderella! Your kids can let their imaginations take flight as they add their own plot twists and illustrations to the beloved story.