In this lesson, students will read Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish. Students will discuss text-dependent questions to promote an understanding of the story’s character. Through subsequent readings, they construct and support arguments concerning the character traits of Amelia Bedelia and use the text to determine how Amelia Bedelia and the Rogers can have different reactions to the same events. After these discussions, students demonstrate their understanding of character by completing a trading card for Amelia Bedelia.

In this lesson, students listen to an excerpt of Poppy by Avi, and describe the characters using details from the text.

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.