Utah Education Network
Uen: Character Education Read Alouds
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...
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Secret: Permission to Feel
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...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Emotional Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide to Feelings
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.
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Soul of Empathy: Getting, Not Taking, Perspective
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Lesson 1: Actions
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know Characters
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modern Little Red Riding Hood: Video
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...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness
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.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Listening to Others
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...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Being Friends
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.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Asking for Help
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
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...
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...
TES Global
Tes: Emotions
[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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Other Bad Cases to Write About
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...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or
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...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Compare Characters' Point of View
Defines and explains how to show how different characters think and feel.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 1 Practice Challenge
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
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.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Gratitude: Understanding Your Feelings and Using Them Wisely
This article discusses the importance of having gratitude and ways to foster it in young people.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Disappointment
A collection of questions, activities, and student assignments which all touch on the topic of handling disappointment in life.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Developing Characters and Settings
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.
PBS
Pbs: Practice Being a Good Sport
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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