4th - 7th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

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

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

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.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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.

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

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

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 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.

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

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

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

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

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

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

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.