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.

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

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!

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

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

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.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

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

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

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.

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

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

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.