3rd - 5th 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

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

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.

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

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.