3rd and 4th 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

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

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

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 handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

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

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

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

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.