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 16 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., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., 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.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: 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., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 2. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — 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
2.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 2. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 3. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
3.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — 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
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.