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 15 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 crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., 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: Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 3. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
2.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 3. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
3.1. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — 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. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.