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4th - 8th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins,&nbsp;learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text.&nbsp;

Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins

Students read a two-page adaptation of the classic short story &ldquo;The Open Window&rdquo; by Saki and answer key reading comprehension questions!

Reading Comprehension: The Open Window

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Reading Comprehension: First Flight

Students read an excerpt adapted from L. Frank Baum’s short story “The Girl Who Owned a Bear” and answer reading comprehension questions about the text.

Reading Comprehension: The Girl Who Owned a Bear

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Reader’s Theater: Camping in the Cold

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Reading Comprehension: Lost and Found

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Extended Reading Comprehension: The One

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

Character Analysis Graphic Organizer

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: “King Chameleon and the Animals” and “The Hare and the Tortoise”

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Plot Diagram

Students read a two-page adaptation of &quot;The Gift of the Magi&quot; and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Extended Reading Comprehension: The Gift of the Magi

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.&nbsp;

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Analyzing Characters in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, &ldquo;The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child&rdquo; and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

Reading Comprehension: The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child

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.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one&#39;s own flaws.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess”

Use this fall-themed Reader&rsquo;s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 1&ndash;4 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel The Outsiders.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #1

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain&rsquo;s The Prince and the Pauper!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Prince and the Pauper

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Literary Response Prompt: Characters

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

Expand your reader&rsquo;s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #1

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Archetypes in Modern Literature

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they&rsquo;re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Character Archetype Trading Cards

As students read&nbsp;R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book&#39;s characters.

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