2nd - 8th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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

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.

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.

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.

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