Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction
In this lesson, students will learn some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, they will come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction
In this lesson, you will discover some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, you'll come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can shape a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Read works of fiction from various cultures and countries and analyze the differences in the characters' moral dilemmas.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Characters
Learn about the different types of characters in Cinderella, and determine which traits belong to the hero and villain. Click on the "Character" button.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Recurring Themes the Lives of Nanavi and Neeraj
Students practice identifying themes using questions from varying perspectives (their own, the author's, and the main character's).
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
Read Works
Read Works: Character 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on characters where students learn about a story's protagonist and antagonist and the relationship between them by reading the book Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser. With free login,...
Curated OER
Image of the Uss Maine
This site from the Library of Congress provides an excellent account from the Library of Congress on the highlights, the main characters, places, and events of the Spanish-American War. Includes links & photos.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Outlining Plot
This video tutorial focuses on outlining plot; it explains that we outline plot as a way to analyze it; to analyze plot, focus on main events and interaction involving main characters. It offers three methods for outlining plot:...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "A Streetcar Named Desire" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
"A Streetcar Named Desire" study guide composed of 24 pages featuring useful information about author. Numerous, worthwhile teaching tips also included. In-depth character analysis provided for main characters. Comprehensive...
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Lit Library: "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" Study Guide [Pdf]
Enhance your reading of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Ernest Gaines with the help of an author biography, novel introduction, vocabulary lists, and reading-response exercises. After completing the novel, write about the...
PBS
Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin
In this series of videos from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, learn how Le Guin and her contemporaries pushed science fiction from a male-dominated genre into a more inclusive form. By redefining the parameters of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Magic and Supernatural
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help to understand the significance of magical characters and events in Shakespeare's works. Enchantment and the occult fascinated the Elizabethans. It includes videos,...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man
Introduce your primary students to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Your Own Faraway Place
In this activity, students will build background by hearing an excerpt from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, an excerpt where the main character, Milo, travels to a distant land that has a distinctive mood: melancholy. Next,...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "The Fountainhead" [Pdf]
A lengthy examination of the novel's main characters is the foundation of this seven page .pdf guide.
Other
Ocb Tracker: Blackfeet Tales
Do you know who the main characters are in the Blackfeet Tales? Use this site to learn features several of the tales.
Yale University
Yale University: Adventures of Geo: To the Moon
The main characters of this comic flip book explore Earth science. In this book travel to the moon with Geo and his friends.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing a New Word
Inspired by the main character's actions in Frindle by Andrew Clements, learners will be asked to reinvent an everyday object with a brand new word. They will need to imagine a character has reinvented their word, and then they will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Scrapbook Book Report
After reading independently a novel or biography, students in this creative writing activity demonstrate their understanding of characterization and point of view by creating the main character's personal scrapbook.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Make Sure Your Subjects and Verbs Agree
A verb is the action word of the sentence and it must agree with the subject, or main character, of the sentence. When the subject is singular, a verb needs an "s", but when the subject is plural, we can drop the "s". [0:41]
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: Mr. Wiggle and Mr. Waggle/monsieur Wiggle Et Monsieur Waggle
Storyteller Priscilla Howe performs a fingerplay story, using her thumbs as the main characters. The simple story about two best friends draws on rhythm, repetition, and movement. The story is available in English and French.
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