Classroom printables, activities & worksheets
Characters
A collection of resources to help students engage with characters in texts that they read. Activities include character profile, comprehension tasks, unit plans, classroom literacy posters, Fakebook pages, hands on activities. This collection also includes blogs with inspiring ideas to help excite your students to study literacy.
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Free Character Traits List
Teach your students to analyze characters more effectively by providing them with a list of character traits.
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Character Traits: Interactive Activity
Analyze text and identify character traits of characters with a Google Slides Interactive activity.
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Character Analysis Task Cards
Use these task cards to practice analyzing characters within any fictional text.
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Character Traits, Motivations, and Feelings Worksheet
Use the Character Traits and Motivations Worksheet to help students analyze characters in literary texts.
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Character Anchor Charts - Traits, Feelings, and Appearances
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character traits, feelings and appearance.
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MLK Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Use our graphic organizer with your students when studying Martin Luther King, Jr.’s notable mental and moral qualities.
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Character Development Worksheet
Describe how characters in a story develop in response to major events and challenges with our 3-page Character Development lesson review worksheet.
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Character Emotions Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students about characters and how to make inferences.
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Character Profile - Worksheet
A profile worksheet for students to use when learning to analyze characters in a text.
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Reading Response Template – Character Report
A reading response template for students to analyze a character in a piece of text.
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Book Character Profile - Stage and Curtains
A fun character profile worksheet set on a theater stage.
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Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Describe the most notable mental and moral qualities of a real or fictional person.
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Character Profile Flip Book – Upper Grades
Use this flip book template with your upper elementary students when teaching about the features of literary characters.
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Character Profile Flip Book - Primary Grades
Use this flip book template with your primary students when teaching about the features of literary characters.
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Movie Versus Book - Template
A template where students compare and review a movie and a book and construct a 3-D popcorn box.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Character Development – Fakebook Page Worksheet
Use research and creative writing skills to design a social media profile for fiction or nonfiction persons.
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Compare and Contrast - Characters Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast characters.
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What's At Stake Poster
A poster to display in your classroom when teaching students how to build characters for a story.
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Detailed Character Profile Worksheet
A worksheet for students to use when building a character for a story.
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Character Profile Template
A template to use when exploring the personality, appearance, feelings and actions of a character from a narrative.
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Little Red Riding Hood Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale.
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Hansel and Gretel Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Hansel and Gretel Fairy Tale.
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Developing Characters Poster Pack - Show, Don't Tell Feelings
Enhance story development and characterization in student writing with a set of 16 Show, Not Tell Posters.
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25 Fairy Tale Character Posters
Set of 25 posters featuring the most significant and popular fairy tale characters.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
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Direct and Indirect Characterization
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterization.
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Fairy Tale Character Brainstorming Sheets
Worksheets for some of the most significant and popular fairy tale characters.
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Character Building Worksheet
A worksheet for students to draw a provided character as well as make their own.
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Exploring Fairy Tale Characters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the methods authors use to create a character.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Creating a Fairy Tale Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a character for a fairy tale.