Kindergarten and 1st Grade Analyze Characters Resources

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

Use this Venn diagram to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting characters.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!