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 12 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: Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 3. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 4. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying
2.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 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. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 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. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.