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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Sort: Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast., The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away., Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole., Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash.
Kept tryingGave up
2.Sort each one: Kept trying or Gave up?
Sort: Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base., 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., 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: Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again., Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing., Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one., Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way.
Kept tryingGave up
LessonPrint · RL.2.3 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Characters Respond
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ada's bread came out flat, so she baked it again with fresh yeast. — Kept trying 2. Jun's kite stuck in the elm, so he fetched a long pole. — Kept trying 3. Lily's paper plane would not fly, so she threw it in the trash. — Gave up 4. The fox could not reach the grapes, so he walked away. — Gave up
2.1. Ella could not find her other glove, so she stopped searching. — Gave up 2. Omar's tower fell down, so he built it again with a wider base. — Kept trying 3. The crow could not reach the water, so she dropped in pebble after pebble. — Kept trying 4. Tom's puzzle had a missing piece, so he put it back in the box for good. — Gave up
3.1. Finn's cake sank in the middle, so he said he would never bake again. — Gave up 2. Leo's sandcastle washed away, so he built a wall to protect the next one. — Kept trying 3. Sami got lost at his new school, so he asked a teacher the way. — Kept trying 4. Zara's drawing went wrong, so she screwed it up and stopped drawing. — Gave up
Questions about How Characters Respond
What does the How Characters Respond worksheet cover?
It practices sorting how characters respond to a challenge: keep trying or give up — 3 questions for Grade 2, all on Common Core RL.2.3: Say how a character reacted when something happened to them. The instruction to students is “Sort each one into the right box”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does How Characters Respond practice?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 — RL.2.3, under Reading: Literature for Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
How Characters Respond is written for Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on RL.2.3, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does How Characters Respond come with an answer key?
Yes. All 3 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of How Characters Respond can I print?
25 — one per student, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is How Characters Respond free to print and photocopy?
Yes. How Characters Respond, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.2.3?
Yes — “How Characters Respond to Challenges” is a 40-minute Grade 2 plan for RL.2.3, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. How Characters Respond is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RL.2.3
Say how a character reacted when something happened to them.