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.
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How Characters Respond
RL.2.3
NameDate
Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate., 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., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 3. Mia fell off her bike, then climbed back on and rode to the gate. — Kept trying 4. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying
2.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 3. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying 4. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
3.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 3. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 4. Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book. — Gave up
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.