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.

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

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.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

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

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

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

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.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

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.

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.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.