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 9 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: Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one., Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Ben lost the first race, so he trained every day for the next one., The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble., Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash.
Kept tryingGave up
3.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., Priya's seeds did not grow, so she planted more in a sunnier spot., Kai lost the first race, so he refused to run in the second one.
Kept tryingGave up
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Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 2. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Max's kite would not lift off, so he packed it away and went home. — Gave up 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. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 3. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 4. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying
3.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 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. 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.