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 24 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: The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., 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.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — 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. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 3. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 4. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
3.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 2. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 3. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 4. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.