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.

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

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.

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

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

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

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

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.

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

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

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

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

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.

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

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

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.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.