2nd and 3rd 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If your child is doing a book report, help her learn more about the setting of her book with this worksheet.

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

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.

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

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.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

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

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.

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.