5th Grade Story Elements Worksheets

These story elements worksheets for 5th grade cover theme, the narrator and characters in original stories, fables and myths. On the theme pages, students chart how a character responds to a challenge, like a climber who turns back near the summit, then state the theme in a sentence and support it with details (CCSS RL.5.2). The narrator pages show how a grumpy narrator, an older sister or a stray dog shapes what the reader learns, and one page compares two narrators of the same event (RL.5.6). The 16 character pages chart how characters respond, interact and change, and how their feelings, motives, thoughts, words and choices show what they are like, in stories about a chess tournament, a canceled aquarium trip, a robotics captain, a borrowed camera and a minor character on a school play crew (RL.5.3). 27 original sheets, each with an answer key.