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.
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How Characters Respond
RL.2.3
NameDate
Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night., 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., Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 3. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 4. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying
2.1. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 2. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 3. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
3.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 3. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 4. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.