It's one thing to ask students to read classic literary works written by master wordsmiths. It's quite another to turn literary classics into an interactive learning tool that prompts your kids to ask for more time to read. With 21 worksheets in all, your students get to read from classic passages in novels such as Black Beauty and Huckleberry Finn. Each worksheet highlights a positive character trait you want your kids to develop. The lessons also motivate students to build associations between personal traits and the ordeals faced in life by the primary fictional characters.

These worksheets will help you analyze specific characters within a body of work of just about any type. As you look over this section you will see that we picked out various famous works to practice this skill with. Has reading time become an exercise in academic futility? Change glum student expressions into eager smiles by using these awesome worksheets in your classroom.