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 8 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: 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., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot.
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., Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash., The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Rana could not spell "because," so she practiced it every night., Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., Sam could not reach the top shelf, so he stopped looking for the book., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 4. Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot. — Kept trying
2.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 3. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
3.1. Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one. — 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. 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.