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I will show the students this video so that they can visually see and hear what characters are.

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The students will be given a sheet of examples of character traits to always refer back to.

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Develop Self-Esteem in Children and Teens with Character Traits

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Increase feelings of self-worth and competence through the identification of personal character traits. Help kids to stop comparing themselves to others.

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The students will create a character trait rainbow about their selves to learn exactly what a character trait is.

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All About Me Rainbow - First Day of School Activity

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We've been finding so many fun first day of school activities on Pinterest and other great sites that we thought we'd pass this cute 'All About Me' rainbow craf

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I will read Chicken Little to the class and we will talk about each character in the story and learn about their character traits.

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The students will create their own Chicken Little using construction paper, feathers, and googly eyes.

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Michele and I are excited to be starting our third unit in Reader's Workshop. In this unit we are going to focus on characters and settings. We are also going to start introducing some of the beginning strategies that readers use. This post is all about characters.

First we start with our anchor chart. Each item on the anchor chart is a key point of what we want to teach. Each item will be a separate mini lesson. The pictures are a great way for the kids to remember what the words say.

We used our story "Chicken Little" as our mentor text for learning about characters. What better way to learn that the characters are the people and animals in the story that talk, than to role play the story! I love these bibs! Instead of spending tons of time making costumes so that they will know who is each character, simply let them wear a card with a picture of their character. Role playing is also evidence of comprehension!

To learn that the characters are who the story is about, we used a bubble map. We discussed words that described Chicken Little as we wrote them on the chart.

The children cut a strip of the characters. They sequenced the characters. Be sure to have a copy of the book available for children to use as a reference. It isn't essential for children to memorize a story. Children need to learn that good readers go back to the text.

How fun! During centers, the kids made a toilet paper roll Chicken Little in the art center. They turned out so stinkin' cute!

So often, teachers are told no art! But, actually art is a brain power activity. Art increases a child's potential to recall information.

The kids roll up the strip of characters and slide it inside the toilet paper roll Chicken Little. We all know that when we send papers home with kids, the end up in the trash can with very little discussion. But, when the child takes home this toilet paper roll Chicken Little, the parents say, "What's that?" Wow! This means that they will have a conversation about the learning from school! Win-win!

We learned that if we sequence the characters, we can use that to help us retell the story. This gives kids a purpose for sequencing characters!

Want to see these lessons? They are part of Unit 3 Digging Deeper.

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Michele and I are excited to be starting our third unit in Reader's Workshop. In this unit we are going to focus on characters and settings. We are also going to start introducing some of the beginning strategies that readers use. This post is all about characters.

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After the students have mastered what character traits are, this exercise with help students determine the difference between physical character traits and personality character traits.

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Character traits anchor chart | Reading, Writing, Grammar | Pinterest | Character trait, Anchor charts and Chart

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The students will have worksheets with the characters of Chicken Little outlined and they will write character traits that describe the character.

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Results for characters - The Mailbox | Character Study Activities | Pinterest | Story elements, Classroom activities and Language arts

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The word search would help the children learn and remember some specific character traits.

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Character traits word search.  Character traits for kids.

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The Character Profile will help the students think about the difference between a character's personality trait and their physical trait. It will also help the student to think of some things that the character does that gives them their traits.

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Character Profile. Comes in both boy and girl pages...Great for second and third grades! | Primary ELA Inspiration activities | Pinterest | Character profile, Profile and Characters

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Character Profile. Comes in both boy and girl pages...Great for second and third grades!

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Each student will decorate their own character trait bag with a picture of their self and their name on it. The students will have little baskets with slips of paper on the desks and the students will rotate to each of their classmates' bags and write a character trait that describes that classmate on it and stick it in their bag. This will help the students learn how to describe people's character traits.

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How characters respond to events and challenges | School: Reading | Pinterest | Characters, School and Literacy

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How characters respond to events and challenges