Understanding Character Traits
This worksheet helps fifth-grade students identify and analyze character traits in stories.
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Understanding Character Traits
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Read the passages and questions carefully. Choose the best answer or write your responses in the space provided. Remember that character traits are the qualities that make a character who they are.
The Brave Little Squirrel
Squeaky was a small squirrel, but he had a big heart. One autumn afternoon, he heard a tiny chirp coming from under a thorny bush. A baby bird had fallen from its nest! Squeaky knew it was dangerous to go near the bush because a grumpy badger often napped there. But he couldn't leave the bird alone. Taking a deep breath, Squeaky bravely scurried under the bush, gently nudged the baby bird onto his back, and carried it to a safer spot near its nest. Its mother soon returned, chirping thankfully.
1. Which character trait best describes Squeaky?
Lazy
Brave
Grumpy
Shy
2. What action shows Squeaky's main character trait?
Listening to the chirp
Taking a deep breath
Saving the baby bird
Scurrying under the bush
3. If Squeaky had been a 'cowardly' squirrel, how might the story have ended differently?
4. Describe a time when you or someone you know showed a character trait like Squeaky's. What happened?
5. A character trait is a quality that describes a character.
6. We can learn about a character's traits by observing their , thoughts, and what other characters say about them.
7. Character traits are always easy to figure out from the first sentence of a story.
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Use the words below to describe a character from a book you have read.
8. Character's Name:
9. Three traits that describe this character: