How Characters Respond is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on sorting how characters respond to a challenge: keep trying or give up, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.3. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
How Characters Respond
RL.2.3
NameDate
Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 2. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying 3. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
2.1. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 2. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
3.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 3. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up 4. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.