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 25 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., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good.
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., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 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
2.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 3. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
3.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 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. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.