How Characters Respond is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on describing how a character reacts to what happens, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 21 of them with different questions, so no two pupils 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. 21 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
How Characters Respond
RL.2.3
NameDate
Read the story, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Rain on the Roof
Rain on the roof, rain on the road,
rain on the back of a slow brown toad.
Rain on the window, rain on the pane,
rain on the roses, rain, rain, rain.
Rain in the gutter, rain in the drain,
rain till the puddle is deep as a lane.
Rain on the roof, rain on the road —
and out comes the sun for the slow brown toad.
1. What is the toad doing through the poem?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Crow and the Pitcher
A crow had flown for hours without finding water. At last she saw a pitcher standing in a garden.
She landed on the rim and looked in. There was water at the bottom, but the neck was narrow and her beak could not reach it. She pushed the pitcher. It was too heavy to tip.
Then the crow noticed the pebbles on the path. She picked one up and dropped it in. Then another. Then another. Each pebble pushed the water a little higher.
After forty pebbles, the water reached the top. The crow drank until she had had enough.
1. How does the crow respond to the problem of the narrow neck?
2. What does dropping forty pebbles tell you about the crow?
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Sitting out in the rain, slow and brown, until the sun comes out.
2.1. She does not give up — she tries pushing it, then drops in pebbles one at a time. 2. She is patient — she kept dropping pebbles even though each one raised the water only a little.
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.