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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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.

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

The Secret Garden's setting tells you a lot about characters, plot, and conflict. Explore the role of setting in literature in this worksheet.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

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

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.