4th - 8th Grade Analyze Characters Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

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