Search Printable 2nd Grade Analyzing Character Worksheets

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

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.

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

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

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.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

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

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

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.

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

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

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.

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

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

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.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

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

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.

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.