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 20 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: Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., 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., 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: 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., 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 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying
2.1. 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. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
3.1. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 2. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 3. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying 4. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.