Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to hone their close reading and literary analysis skills. After annotating their copy of the story, writer's craft an essay in which they analyze...

In this learning module, students will practice analyzing indirect characterizations. A worksheet is provided to reinforce the concept. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.

A module to practice skills that will identify how characterization helps the development of theme in a literary work.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on Commedia Dell'Arte and stock characters including a close activity on Commedia Dell'Arte, a definition of stock characters with examples, modern day stock characters, and...

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...

Students 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...

In this learning module, students will practice making inferences about character traits. A worksheet is provided to practice with finding implicit character traits. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Roald Dahl's "Learning to Chunk." Details that show characterization are blue while details that appeal to visualization or the senses are red and questions...

Insightful interview with this imagist poet. He gives some philosophy and characterization of imagery.

Travel through Earth's history to learn about the Oligocene time period, which is characterized by the appearance of most of the living families of mammals.

Make learning about Earth's biomes fun and easy with video clips. Learn about the unique Chaparral climate characterized by mild, wet winters and warm, dry summers.

At this site from Family Doctor.org you can find out what characterizes a binge eating disorder, side effects, and treatment. Links to similar articles are provided as well.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Marcus who watched a partial eclipse through a telescope and answer questions about comprehension, climax, supporting details, characterization,...

The term tissue is used to describe a group of cells found together in the body. Although there are many types of cells in the human body, they are organized into four broad categories of tissues: epithelial, connective, muscle, and...

Here, critically read the text of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" with the help of accompanying questions about characterization, symbolism, plot, and narration. Organized into five pages, this website allows readers to...

We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...

Students observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.

Students characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.

An excellent site from the UK. Extensive review of characterizations and themes, along with information on structure and setting.

A site from the UK. Includes very detailed characterizations from the novel, as well as thematic analysis on topics such as marriage and societal standards.

What characterizes animals from plants? General characteristics of the animal kingdom are noted here. Click on Classification for the Kingdom Animalia; clicking on the camera provides pictures of each animal.

A biographical profile of author Truman Capote. Included is a lesson on characterization for Grades 7-12.

Students become marine biologists, and their goal is to characterize the biological communities that live on or near the seamount in the Monterey Bay area. There, they must identify a mystery mollusk.

The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...