RL.3.3 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
:"Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events."
These worksheets, workbooks, and lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Worksheets
Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect
Worksheet
Reading for Comprehension: Cause and Effect
This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.
3rd Grade
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Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show
Worksheet
Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show
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.
3rd Grade
Worksheet
Character Changes Order
Worksheet
Character Changes Order
Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.
2nd Grade
Worksheet
Character Traits in Fairy Tales
Worksheet
Character Traits in Fairy Tales
Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.
3rd Grade
Worksheet
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Worksheet
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.
3rd Grade
Worksheet
Identifying Characters and their Dialogue
Worksheet
Identifying Characters and their Dialogue
Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.
3rd Grade
Worksheet
Lesson Plans
Character Traits
Lesson plan
Character Traits
What makes a character special? Their traits, of course. With help from The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg, students will enjoy completing character maps and learning about different character traits.
3rd Grade
Lesson plan
Picture Puzzlers
Lesson plan
Picture Puzzlers
Make your students into storytellers with this lesson where they will learn how to make complete stories of their own.
3rd Grade
Lesson plan
Keeping Good Character
Lesson plan
Keeping Good Character
This reading and writing lesson also helps students develop empathy. After paying attention to the main character's responses in Victoria and Elizabeth Kann's Purplelicious, students will relate her experiences to their own.
3rd Grade
Lesson plan
Identifying Character Traits
Lesson plan
Identifying Character Traits
What's your "it"? This lesson incorporates Tony Dungy's You Can Do It! into some hands-on activities that help students learn about different character traits.
3rd Grade
Lesson plan
Characters Change Just Like We Do
Lesson plan
Characters Change Just Like We Do
Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.
3rd Grade
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Bun Bun Button Character Traits
Lesson plan
Bun Bun Button Character Traits
In this lesson, you will read the heartwarming story of Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco to your class. Students will then use their own reading skills to describe the two main characters in the story.
3rd Grade
Lesson plan
Workbooks
A Christmas Carol For Young Readers
Workbook
A Christmas Carol For Young Readers
Reading without the bah-humbugs: take a look at "A Christmas Carol" with story pages young readers can bring to life with color, and step-by-step analysis pages to get them thinking.
3rd Grade
Workbook
The Big Book of Book Reports
Workbook
The Big Book of Book Reports
Make book reports a breeze with this workbook that contains plenty of pages for kids to thoroughly investigate and write about a book.
3rd Grade
Workbook
My Vacation
Workbook
My Vacation
In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.
3rd Grade
Workbook
Games
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Exercises
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