Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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…