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

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.

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

Color in one of the most famous characters in fairytale history: Little Red Riding Hood!

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.