1st - 7th Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Resources

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

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.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

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

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

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.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

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

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.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

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

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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.

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