Do your students struggle with comprehension? Would a comprehension power goals help your students? This packet is a step by step resource that will help your students gradually grow so that they are able to determine how characters respond to major events and challenges. They will progress through the following sequence: task cards, short stories, picture books, and chapter books. All the activities will focus on helping your students learn to identify major events and challenges. Your students will also learn how characters respond to these events and what the characters learned from the challenge. An assessment is provided at the end to help show you if your students have mastered this standard.

2.L.3
Character Reactions to Major Events
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Task Cards– 4 Short Stories
Practice Passage– Our New Baby
Picture Book List for Character Reactions to Major Events
Retell Spinner Activity
Graphic Organizer
Picture Book Questions– Back to Front and Upside Down by
Chapter Book Questions– Tornado by Betsy Byars
Chapter Book List for Character Reactions to Major Events
Own Book Graphic Organizer
Assessment-Broken Spoke
Answer Key

All activities are aligned with ELA Standards for Second Grade. Perfect to use with your 1 Red and 2 Red readers. These materials are aligned to, not created by, American Reading Company®.