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1st and 2nd Grade Analyze Characters Resources : Page 3

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

What Would the Character Do?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Glossary: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

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

Glossary: Map a Story

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.

Frontiersman Character Traits

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Prairie Girl Character Traits

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.

You Are a Character!

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Story Slide

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Character Paper Dolls

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

The Elves and the Shoemaker: Story Map

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

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Vocabulary Cards: Fairy Tale Character Traits

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story

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

Vocabulary Cards: Learn Story Elements

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

Glossary: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers

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.

Rapunzel Story Map

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Vocabulary Cards: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Exploring Fictional Text

We all love a good story, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of what's important. Teach your kid how to map a story with this fun and engaging worksheet.

Story Mapping

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Choice Storyboard

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Vocabulary Cards: Elements of Fairy Tales

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

A Christmas Carol: Characters

Introduce students to fictional story elements with a book by first grade favorite, Mo Willems! This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details lesson plan.

Finding the Key Details

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.

Craft Stick Story Elements

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

Map a Story

Through this lesson, your students will use academic vocabulary to discuss character traits, author's purpose, and the sequence of events in a story.

Learn Story Elements

Get students curious about reading with these activities designed to support comprehension. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Main Ideas and Details lesson plan.

Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book *Tree of Cranes* by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.

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