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Utah Education Network

Uen: Character Education Read Alouds

For Teachers K Standards
This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will...
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Character Lab

Character Lab: The Secret: Permission to Feel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Don't assume that the young people in your life are fine. Don't assume that what you see is all there is to know. This blog describes an encounter that a young boy had that helped him feel "seen" and understood by adults. Listening is...
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Character Lab

Character Lab: Emotional Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide to Feelings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emotional intelligence is understanding your feelings and using them wisely. This article discusses the importance of having emotional intelligence and ways to foster it in young people.
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Character Lab

Character Lab: The Soul of Empathy: Getting, Not Taking, Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
We have all learned how to imagine how someone else is feeling - empathy. However, maybe there is a better way to "walk in someone else's shoes". This blog explains why we shouldn't guess how people are doing and just simply ask.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lesson 1: Actions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this resource, students will practice identifying and describing the actions of a character. Teachers will model these skills through the use of text and pictures from the story No, David! by David Shannon. Students will then draw a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this language development instructional activity using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modern Little Red Riding Hood: Video

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
As you watch this updated story of Little Red Riding Hood, notice the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters in the story. Check out the additional activities including Guided viewing. Students describe characters in a story...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it means to be fair.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Listening to Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Show others that you are a good listener by looking at him or her, listening and not interrupting, asking questions, nodding to show you understand, and repeating what you heard. This website will not only help you become a better...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Being Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There are certain things you must do in order to be a good friend. Find a list of these things at this website as well as questions and activity ideas that will help you discuss friendship with classmates and family.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Asking for Help

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you need help, don't be afraid to ask! This website, in addition to providing tips to help you ask peers and adults for help, include discussion questions and activities through which students discuss what it means to need and get...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Indirect vs. Direct Characterization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
PPT
TES Global

Tes: Emotions

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation contains art pieces that deal with different emotions. Students will analyze the art pieces and the associated emotions.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Other Bad Cases to Write About

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
After reading A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon the writer will plan an original story where an unusual affliction affects a character and is eventually solved. The students will use strong and memorable details as they convey their...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the students will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a real...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Compare Characters' Point of View

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Defines and explains how to show how different characters think and feel.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 1 Practice Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Match It! Game Cards to print, cut out, and play at home. Characters (top row) and Feeling Words (bottom row). This game reinforces what students have learned about the ways anxiety, worry, or fear show itself. It can be completed...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
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Character Lab

Character Lab: Gratitude: Understanding Your Feelings and Using Them Wisely

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses the importance of having gratitude and ways to foster it in young people.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Disappointment

For Teachers K - 1st
A collection of questions, activities, and student assignments which all touch on the topic of handling disappointment in life.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Developing Characters and Settings

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
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PBS

Pbs: Practice Being a Good Sport

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the feelings associated with winning and losing. Model possible encouraging statements to say as a winner and a loser in a game.

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