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 21 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: Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching.
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., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., 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., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 3. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying 4. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying
2.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
3.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 3. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 4. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.