In this lesson, students who are reading Animal Farm, by George Orwell (All rights reserved-Copyright), will evaluate the behaviors of different animals. Students will then research the individuals/groups represented by these characters and they will start to make connections as they think about why the author chose certain characters to represent certain people. Once students have a better understanding of the characters and who they represent, they will choose one character and trace the development of that character throughout the text. 

In this lesson, students who are reading Animal Farm, by George Orwell (All rights reserved-Copyright), will evaluate the behaviors of different animals. Students will then research the individuals/groups represented by these characters and they will start to make connections as they think about why the author chose certain characters to represent certain people. Once students have a better understanding of the characters and who they represent, they will choose one character and trace the development of that character throughout the text. 

This lesson will teach how characters evolve across a story, and that often times the important changes are subtle. This lesson uses accountable-talk during a read aloud of One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to demonstrate how, as readers, students can use the traits of their character as a lens through which to interpret deeper, more significant changes stirring within. They will ultimately use those observations about their characters to author an epilogue for their books. The epilogue will allow students to demonstrate what they have learned about their main character, and it will allow the teacher to assess how well the students understand their characters and the changes their characters experienced across the text.

Read aloud activity for K-3 that ties in with the character trait "Courage."After reading Arnie and the Skateboard Gang, students will explore pattern in Amy Sherald's painting of Michelle Obama and then create their own pattern.

Read aloud activity for K-3 that ties in with the character trait "Courage." Book discussion for grades 6-8 to embed core values.

A series of worksheets, projects, lessons and activities on characterization for various student levels.

In this lesson, students explore adjectives through a read-aloud and develop a working definition of the term. They list as many adjectives as they can, then combine them with "to be" verbs to create simple sentences. Next, they are introduced to character traits by putting the adjectives from their list in the context of a character from a shared reading. They then use an online chart to equate the character traits with specific actions the character takes. Finally, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using Internet reference tools to compile lists of accurate, powerful adjectives supported with details from the reading. Students read each other's lists of adjectives and try to identify who is being described.

In this lesson, students watch as the teacher models using details to describe a character in an Arnold Lobel fable.  Then students work to use details to describe a character in another fable.

This is a resource that can be used for whole group, small group, independent practice to help students monitor their comprehension. Teachers can adapt it and make it fit the needs of their classroom. It has suggestions for how to use/integrate the resource, but as mentioned above, can be adapted to teach a variety of RL standards. 

In this lesson, students review traits of some of the major characters in Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game. Students start by listing Ender's character traits, then discuss them. Students then choose another character to analyze, searching for passages in the novel that provide evidence of their character traits.

 This lesson plan is for the book Welcome Comfort.  Pre-reading, during reading, and after reading questions and activities are provided.  These questions could be made into online quizzes (Kahoot, Quizizz, Google Forms, Etc.) to check for student understanding.