EL Education
El Education: Kurare
After researching slavery and personal experiences of slaves with primary and secondary resources, students create a fictional character that is historically and geographically accurate. Character files include a portrait, a narrative...
EL Education
El Education: Mary Jo Wellington
After researching primary and secondary resources on slavery, students create a fictional character file that is both historically and geographically accurate and demonstrates an understanding of the humanness of slaves.
EL Education
El Education: Molly Sanchez
Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...
TES Global
Blendspace: Character Traits
A seven-part learning module on character traits and how to identify them. Lessons include links to lessons, a character traits list, videos and graphic organizers.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Secret Garden
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frances Hodgson Burnett's Secret Garden and highlight words that describe Mary's looks in blue and words that describe her actions in red.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story: Characters
The interactive story lesson engages students in the study of "characters" and terms associated with them. Using the story of Cinderella as an anchor story, students will identify the following: hero, villain, protagonist, antagonist,...
Read Works
Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Little Match Girl
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Hans Anderson's Little Match Girl teachers can engage children in high quality discussion and support language development.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Character Analysis
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart uses examples from children's literature to explore character. It includes writing activities and challenges children to think from the character's point of view.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Doctor De Soto
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on identifying character traits in characters. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment using Activotes. In addition there is practice with vocabulary, phonics, and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Horton Hatches the Egg Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a collection of reading activities based on the book - Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr. Seuss.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Literary Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Midsummer Nights Dream Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart Activotes are used to help students recall identities of major characters, quotes, and literary terms in Shakespearean play, Midsummer Night's Dream.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Examining a Character's Personalities
In this lesson plan students will be able to understand the different personalities of a character by examining how they act when in contact with other characters. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Introduction to Character Traits
In this lesson plan students will better understand what and how to generate the traits of a character. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Can Teach
Can Teach: You Are What You Say Personality Profiles
For this lesson plan students will develop personality profiles by analyzing the quotes of a character, historical figure, present day figure, etc. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characterization Through Thoughts
This lesson introduces characterization through thoughts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anthropomorphic Characterization
This lesson introduces anthropomorphic characterization in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characters and Plot
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and plot in fiction writing.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Workshop: Analyzing a Character [Pdf]
Organize your thoughts about two different characters using this printable worksheet. Five elements of character are covered. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Indirect vs. Direct Characterization
This lesson introduces indirect (learn about the characters through speech, thoughts, actions, physical description, other character's feelings) and direct characterization (author tells the reader about the character) in fiction...
Caro Clarke
Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...