Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

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