Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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.

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

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

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.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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

Use this resource to teach your students to pick out character actions from the text as they answer questions.

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!

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

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.

Inspiration is a blank canvas! All we know about this man is he's wearing a frontiersman hat, so let your child develop a set of character traits for him.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.