Kindergarten - 8th Grade Analyze Characters Worksheets

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

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.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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 graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

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

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

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

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

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.

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.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

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 make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.