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 19 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., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 19 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 3. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying 4. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
2.1. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 2. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up 3. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
3.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 3. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 4. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.