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2nd Grade Common Core Analyze Characters Worksheets

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

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The Fox and the Crow

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

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Reader’s Theater: The Snowman’s Day to Play

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

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Story Elements Map

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

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The Crow and the Jug

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

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Reader’s Theater: Summertime Blues

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

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"The Three Little Pigs" Character Study

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.

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Story Rollercoaster

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.

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Character Traits: The Princess and the Pea

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.

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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

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.

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Word Bank: Emotion Charades

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.

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Character Reactions

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

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Character Changes Order

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

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Describe a Character

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.

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Loki Myths: Loki and the Builder

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

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Who, What, Where 

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

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Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

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.

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Character Changes

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

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Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

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Glossary: Fairy Tale Character Traits

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

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Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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Inferring with Quotes

Use this Valentine&#39;s Day reader&#39;s theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

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Reader’s Theater: My Special Valentine

Use this fall-themed Reader&rsquo;s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

readers theater fall festival fun

Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun

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.

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Story Roadmap

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.

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Characters' Points of View

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!

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Character Actions

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

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Character Trading Card

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

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Sum It Up: Vocabulary

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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