Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

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

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

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

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

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

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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

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

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

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.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

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