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 13 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: Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., 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: 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., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 3. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 4. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying
2.1. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 2. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying 3. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up 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. 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. 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.