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 23 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., Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good.
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., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., 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: Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night. — Kept trying 3. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
2.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 3. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 4. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up
3.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 2. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — 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
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.