Characters and Settings Matching

Kindergarten ELAReading Comprehension6 pages

About this worksheet

Story Matches has kindergarten students connect story characters to where they belong and what they do. First they draw lines from a firefighter, a farmer, an astronaut, and a princess to four settings. Next, a baker, a pirate, and a king match to events such as finding treasure. The sheet ends with a two-sentence read-aloud about a green frog in a quiet pond, and students circle its character and setting. Every match and both circle answers are in the answer key. The standard is Common Core RL.K.3.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RL.K.3

โ€œWith prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.โ€

Characters and settings in the first match and the frog story, and major events in the Character to Event match.

What's inside this worksheet

Character to Setting

Four characters on the left and four settings on the right, in scrambled order: space, a fire station, a castle, and a farm with a red barn.

Character to Event

The baker, the pirate, and the king match to baking a cake, finding treasure, and sitting on a throne.

Read-Aloud Story

The teacher reads about a frog that finds a shiny gold coin on a lily pad. Students circle the frog from a bear and a cat, then the pond from a castle and a barn.

How teachers use it

Mime the events

Act out the Character to Event matches first. One student mimes decorating a cake or digging up a chest, and the class guesses the character.

Find the setting words

After the frog story, ask which words told students the setting. Quiet pond and lily pad are the clues; the castle and barn choices repeat the first match.

Swap a setting

Students pick one character, like the pirate, and draw it somewhere new. The drawing shows who understands that setting means place.

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