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 6 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: Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good., 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., Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base.
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., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., 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: Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one., 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., The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
2.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — Kept trying 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 3. Nell's knot kept slipping, so she left her laces undone all day. — Gave up 4. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying
3.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one. — Gave up 3. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.