Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

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.

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

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.