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2nd - 4th Grade Fiction Analyze Characters Resources

Reading and writing: You can't have one without the other! Get familiar with every facet of literature in this workbook. It's packed with literary analysis activities.

Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

Make book reports a breeze with this workbook that contains plenty of pages for kids to thoroughly investigate and write about a book.

The Big Book of Book Reports

Practice reading comprehension with a wide variety of world tales, some famous and some little-known. The book shines a light on supernatural stories, monstrous myths, and terrifying true-life tales.

Scary Fairy Tales

If your kids are looking for new reading material, hand them these! Enjoy these diverse fairy tales that come from all over the continent of Asia.

Asian Mythology

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.

Reading for Comprehension: Alexis and the Game Show

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character&rsquo;s actions with their emotions.

Character Emotion Match Cards

This story map will help organize students&#39; retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

As students read&nbsp;R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s <em>Wonder</em>, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book&#39;s characters.

Novel Study: Wonder: Character Tracker

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.

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

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

Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

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

Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

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.

Character Changes

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!

Character Actions

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.

Compare & Contrast Supporting Characters

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

My Vacation (Part One)

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

The Selfish Giant

Reading without the bah-humbugs: take a look at "A Christmas Carol" with story pages young readers can bring to life with color, and step-by-step analysis pages to get them thinking.

A Christmas Carol For Young Readers

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.

Story Roadmap

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

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Analyze the Characters

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

The Beginnning of the Armadillos

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

Comparing Characters: Haunted Hotel

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.

Compare Characters

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

"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.

Peter Pan Analysis 1

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.

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