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

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

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

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

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize 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.

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!

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.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

Your child will identify the author and illustrator of the book by circling the appropriate names on the cover of the book.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.