RL.2.3 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
:"Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges."
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Character Changes Order
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Character Changes Order
Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.
2nd Grade
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Word Bank: Emotion Charades
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Word Bank: Emotion Charades
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.
2nd Grade
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Identifying Cause and Effect
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Identifying Cause and Effect
Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.
Interactive Worksheet
Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot
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Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot
Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Emotion Charades
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Vocabulary Cards: Emotion Charades
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Emotion Charades.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Emotion Charades
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Glossary: Emotion Charades
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Emotion Charades.
2nd Grade
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Pair the Cause and Effect
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Pair the Cause and Effect
Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.
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Language Frames: Character Changes
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Language Frames: Character Changes
Use this simple template to identify a character's feelings, challenges, and resolution throughout a text.
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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat
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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat
Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Emily's Turtle
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Emily's Turtle
This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
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Glossary: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
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Vocabulary Cards: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
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Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
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Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Fairy Tale Character Traits
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Glossary: Fairy Tale Character Traits
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Fairy Tale Character Traits
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Vocabulary Cards: Fairy Tale Character Traits
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.
2nd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story
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Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.
2nd Grade
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Glossary: Map a Story
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Glossary: Map a Story
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.
2nd Grade
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Story Elements Map
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Story Elements Map
This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.
1st Grade
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Cause and Effect for Kids
Interactive Worksheet
Cause and Effect for Kids
Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.
1st Grade
Interactive Worksheet
What is Cause and Effect?
Interactive Worksheet
What is Cause and Effect?
Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.
1st Grade
Interactive Worksheet
Character Comparison Graphic Organizer
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Character Comparison Graphic Organizer
Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.
4th Grade
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Creating a Community Story and Mobile
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Creating a Community Story and Mobile
After reading a story about community, students will use this worksheet to create a mobile that illustrates and describes the many aspects of living in healthy relationships within communities.
2nd Grade
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.
2nd Grade
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension
This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.
2nd Grade
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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun
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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun
Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.
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Tall Tale Characters
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Tall Tale Characters
Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.
2nd Grade
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Compare the Characters
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Compare the Characters
Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.
2nd Grade
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Describe a Character
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Describe a Character
Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.
2nd Grade
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Character Trading Card
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Character Trading Card
Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.
2nd Grade
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