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.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.