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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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

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

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

"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.

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.

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

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

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.

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