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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

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

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

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

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

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.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Compare and contrast characters with this clever fifth-grade graphic organizer!

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.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

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