Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

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

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

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

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

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.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

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

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

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

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

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

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

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

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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

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.

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.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Inspiration is a blank canvas! All we know about this man is he's wearing a frontiersman hat, so let your child develop a set of character traits for him.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!