Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

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

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

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

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 resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

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.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

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

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

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

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

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

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

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

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

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!