4th - 8th Grade Analyze Characters Resources

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

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

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

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.

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

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

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

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

"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.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

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