Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

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

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

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

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

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

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

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

Color in one of the most famous characters in fairytale history: Little Red Riding Hood!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Use this Venn diagram to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.