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.
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How Characters Respond
RL.2.3
NameDate
Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash., The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., 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., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 2. 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. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
2.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying 3. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up 4. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
3.1. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 2. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 3. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 4. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.