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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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

Complete the story by writing the main events.

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

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

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