Help your students to think more about the main characters in their novels by using these FIVE minilessons to help launch a character study in your classroom. (These minilessons are suitable for grades 3-6.) If you use balanced literacy in your classroom, then you definitely will want to use these in your Reading Workshop.
The demonstrations for these minilessons revolve around TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. However, I've left this document in Word Format so you can change the demonstration text to another book if you desire.
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