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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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

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

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