1st - 4th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

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.

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

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

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.

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

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

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

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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.

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.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.