Festival Faces

This engaging reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen character analysis and close-reading skills through a lively autumn festival story. After reading the passage, students match four character descriptions to the correct individuals by carefully analyzing actions, emotions, and contributions described in the text.

Learning Goals

• Character Analysis (Grades 4-6): Identify characters based on traits, behaviors, and roles in the story.
• Using Supporting Details: Connect specific actions and emotions to the correct character.
• Narrative Comprehension: Recall key events and understand who did what in the passage.
• Critical Thinking: Interpret descriptive clues and eliminate incorrect matches.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Close Reading Practice: Encourages careful attention to small but important details.
• Strengthens Memory for Text: Reinforces recall of characters and story events.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for guided reading, literacy centers, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet supports deeper narrative understanding by requiring students to connect descriptions to the correct characters using evidence from the text. By practicing character matching, learners strengthen comprehension, attention to detail, and analytical thinking. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with characterization, close reading, and narrative analysis.

This worksheet is part of our matching choices reading passages worksheets collection.