3rd - 5th Grade Analyze Characters Resources

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.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

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 Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

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

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.

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

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.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.