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Characters' Feelings Or Motives Lesson PlanCharacters' Feelings Or Motives Lesson Plan
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives

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Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally, they complete a writing frame using adjectives to which they add "ly" to determine how the meaning changes.

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Grade
4th
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English Language Arts
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Skills Practice
Year
2001
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