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Language Arts: Writing Lead Sentences

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover the importance of lead sentences and practice writing them. After reading lead sentences in books, they determine the qualities that attract and hold readers' attention. Finally, once they have identified the...
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Successful Traits of Mentors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the traits that mentors share. They brainstorm in order to create a definition of a mentor that is shared in groups while writing in journals. Students also write about the traits needed...
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"All About Me" Paragraph

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a paragraph titled "All About Me" in the computer lab after they have drawn graphic organizers to fill in background information about themselves and used a "10-Point Writing Checklist" to do peer editing.
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One Small Act

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the trait of caring. In this character education lesson, students discuss acts of kindness and collaborate to promote a kindness campaign.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Graphic Organizer: Venn Diagram

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Get to know more about the characters of the novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis by comparing and contrasting their character traits using a Venn diagram.
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Biopoem: Bud, Not Buddy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young poets focus on one character from a story they are reading, collect details, and use a biopoem template to analyze this character. The activity can be used with any text.
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Human Traits

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study vocabulary and complete a survey.  In this human traits lesson students collect and analyze data then discuss what they learned. 
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Is Our Health Inherited or Acquired?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders list the traits they get from their parents and distinguish between inherited traits from acquired ones. They assess how to recognize influences that may affect body types and sizes and research on the internet heredity and...
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Orange County Department of Education

The Hero: Writing and Responding

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils identify heroic character traits that they admire and that inspire trust and result in service to others. They identify the heroic traits of a character of their choosing and defend their reasoning using evidence from the text and...
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Trickster Tales

For Teachers 2nd
Students study folk tales and moral lessons from cultures around the world. In this character traits lesson, students study moral lessons through the character traits in various cultures folk tales. Students complete 11 activities...
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In Character

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students fill out a character trait graphic organizer about characters in a book that they are reading. In this characters lesson plan, students see how traits relate to character actions.
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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a pre-writing activity that reinforces organization in writing. They write a piece of narrative writing using the traits of organization.
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Let's Edit!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners in fourth grade pair up with students in second grade to edit writing convension.
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Life Size Characters

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze character traits and create a life size character outline. In this character analysis lesson, 6th graders analyze character traits of a character using character webs and poems. Students then create a life size...
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Fourth Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders produce narrative about a personal experience, with a focus on the trait of organization.
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Heredity Worksheet: Blood Type

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics learning exercise, learners use Punnett squares to determine the possible genotypes of offspring based on blood type. This learning exercise has 6 problems to solve.
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Creating a Persuasive Travel Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a county and develop an illustrated travel brochure to persuade elementary students to visit their county.  In this persuasive writing lesson plan, students use descriptive language effectively in a travel brochure. ...
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What Color Is Your Apple?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders spend time identifying the characteristics they have and ones they would like to develop for their own personal growth. As a class, they brainstorm ways they can tell they are growing up or being mature. Individually, they...
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Tell Me; I’ll Listen

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Encourage respect, responsibility, and caring within your classroom with a collection of lessons that spark dialogue and self reflection. To address character traits, lessons touch on topics such as staying safe in the cafeteria,...
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Yo! Conventions!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners get in groups, take a list of words, put them into story form, and punctuate them. They present their story to the class and consider how punctuation changes meaning. Great excercise. 
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The Cay: Biopoem

For Students 6th - 8th
Theodore Taylor's The Cay provides the text for an assignment that asks each reader to craft a biopoem for one of the characters.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

6 Traits: Organization

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students make logical patterns in their writing to demonstrate the trait of organization. In this organization lesson plan, students focus on events proceeding logically.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

6 Traits: Word Choice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore language arts by participating in a vocabulary usage activity. In this word choice lesson, students read examples of great word usage in literature and discuss with the class why some words appear stronger than others....
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

6 Traits: Sentence Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students practice writing with sentence fluency in order to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. In this sentence fluency lesson plan, students focus on rhythm and flow.

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