Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

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.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

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.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.