This week in Reader's Workshop, we are continuing our study of characterization. We want to understand how characters think, feel and change during a story. This will help us understand what we read. Below are a few examples of what we are working on during class! Our goal is to understand what a character looks like on the inside and the outside. Before writing about characters in a book, we wrote about ourselves! Reader's Workshop focus wall! We studied many characters in our favorite…
Teaching about character traits in reading can be challenging but fun! Read about lots of great ideas to help you teach character traits in reading to improve reading comprehension.
Reading Fiction Posters, Interactive Reading Fiction Anchor Charts, and Student Notebook sheets (perfect for interactive notebook pages!). Posters include story elements, character traits, theme, plot, protagonist and antagonist, setting, problem solution, and more! Character Traits Poster | Character Traits Anchor Chart
This week in Reader's Workshop, we are continuing our study of characterization. We want to understand how characters think, feel and change during a story. This will help us understand what we read. Below are a few examples of what we are working on during class! Our goal is to understand what a character looks like on the inside and the outside. Before writing about characters in a book, we wrote about ourselves! Reader's Workshop focus wall! We studied many characters in our favorite…
I don't know about your students, but mine seem fascinated by the changes characters can go through in a story! We have been having some great discussions about this. I use that roller coaster visual
Character Traits: A Bad Case of Stripes This lesson is great for teaching character traits by starting with lima beans to review adjectives. Then using the book, A Bad Case of Stripes, will practice character traits as a class. After that students will receive character cards. They will read the description of the characters and make inferences to determine character traits.
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell illustrated by David Catrow Molly, Molly, Molly. Have you read Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon? If you have not, do it soon. She is AMAZING. She is definitely one of my favorite characters! Molly has many flaws. The thing about her flaws that is so great is that with the advice of her grandma, she turns them in to strengths. Seriously, this kiddo has got it going on. She has a bucky tooth beaver smile, that just so happens to aid her in her penny…
