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Kindergarten - 7th Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Worksheets

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.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

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

Character Analysis Graphic Organizer

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

Character Emotion Match Cards

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

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

This story map will help organize students&#39; retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

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

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

Little Boy Blue

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

Book Characters

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

The Ants and the Grasshopper

The next time you're having story time, be sure to use this fairy tale graphic organizer to boost comprehension!

Fairy Tale Graphic Organizer

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Character Traits: The Princess and the Pea

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

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

Novel Study: Wonder: Character Tracker

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

The Crow and the Jug

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

Describe a Character

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland&rsquo;s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From 'The King of Elfland’s Daughter'

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Reader’s Theater: The Snowman’s Day to Play

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

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Comparing and Contrasting Scary Stories

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

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

"The Three Little Pigs" Character Study

Students will read an excerpt from The Hound of the Baskervilles to discover the great mystery of Baskerville Hall, answering “Stop and Think” fiction comprehension questions throughout the text.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 5&ndash;8 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel The Outsiders.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #2

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Get to know the man, the monster,the legend of Frankenstein with this passage from the original novel -- the moment where he realizes he's made a grave mistake.

Frankenstein

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

Character Traits: Making Inferences

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 1&ndash;8&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

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Kindergarten - 7th Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Worksheets

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