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 17 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 fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 17. 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. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
2.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 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
3.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 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
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.