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Character analysis worksheet

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Today I’m sharing a free character analysis worksheet.

character analysis reading comprehension worksheet

My Seven (going into second grade) is an avid reader.  I’m glad she loves to read a variety of books – both fiction and nonfiction – but now it’s time to take her a step further.

How to teach the concept of character analysis:

1. Does your child know the word character?  Explain that it’s the main person or animal in a story.  Fiction books usually have both major and minor characters.  You can go even further and talk about the main character (protagonist) and the character who’s fighting against him (antagonist).

2. Choose an interesting character from a book your child has just read.  Try to pick a “round” rather than “flat” character.  That just means to pick someone who has a variety of traits and something of a complex personality.  Off the top of my head I can think of some very round characters in children’s literature:

  • Lily from Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
  • Gregory from Gregory the Terrible Eater
  • Ramona from the Ramona books

I can also think of some flat characters who are defined by just a few traits:

  • Sal from Blueberries for Sal
  • George from the Curious George books
  • Benny from the original The Boxcar Children

While all the above examples are fiction books, we chose to do an analysis of a nonfiction character.  I had printed the book Cathy Freeman from Reading A-Z  (that subscription was worth every penny – and no, I’m not getting paid to say that!).  After listening to my daughter read it, I presented a set of character traits.

character analysis sample

3.  Look at a list of character traits together.  Identify traits that describe yourself.  Then have your child find traits that describe her.  This will help your child understand how to use the chart and think about words that describe her character.

4. Now have your child illustrate the main character inside the frame of the character analysis chart.

5. Referring to the character analysis chart, talk together about words that describe your character.   Have your child record them in the circles on the printable.

character anaylsis worksheet

 

 

Have you heard of Cathy Freeman?  She is the sixth fastest woman on record.  What makes her even more unique is that she is an Aborigine.  Freeman experienced a lot of prejudice and opposition as she worked toward her Olympic goal.  Here was our conversation as we looked for Freeman’s character traits:

Me: “Let’s read through this list and see if we can find some words that describe Cathy Freeman.”
My Seven: “Adventurous, afraid, ambitious… what’s that?”
“That means that you have big goals for yourself. You work hard to do something.”
“That’s true.”
“Can you tell me how she was ambitious?”
“She wanted to be in the Olympics.”
Great! Write ambitious on one of the circles.”
“Angry, arrogant… what does arrogant mean?”
“It means you think you’re better than other people.”
“I don’t think she’s arrogant… is she brave?”
“Well, I think she was brave.  She ran a race in front of thousands of people.”

 6. As your child fills in the circles, make sure she can support each trait with information from the book.  Help her to avoid using words that mean the same thing.  The most important part of this activity is to think about the story.  I didn’t want my daughter to pick a bunch of words and write them in without backing them up.  Because she is just going into second grade, I chose not to have her record the support from the book. For older children you would want that to be part of the activity as well.

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  1. kiertwenen

    December 11, 2018 at 7:42 pm

    I need help on my play analysis

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  2. Shonda

    June 19, 2014 at 4:14 pm

    Like I’ve said before, I taught Kindergarten for 12 years, but I feel so clueless about teaching my own. I mostly felt like I was chasing 25 kids everyday and helping them to listen and not hurt each other. I did plenty of teaching, but it did seem more like crowd control. I am now in the midst of learning how to teach my own children at home and I need these simple lessons to guide me. Thank you so much!

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 9, 2014 at 5:31 am

      The nice thing is you will be able to do so much more one on one than in a classroom of 25 kids with different abilities and behavior challenges! Thanks so much for following along.

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