Character Traits and Feelings

This unit has everything you need to teach about character traits, inferences, and feelings in an engaging and fun way! Teachers love this resource because there are 15 scripted mini-lessons ready to print! Students love this resource because they celebrate the end of the unit with a book character party!

In this unit, students identify and infer character traits and feelings and analyze character changes and motivations. The character study is unit 5 of my Reading Workshop Bundle. This resource can be purchased and used individually or with the bundle.

Mini-lessons include:

• Mini-lesson: Readers identify the characters in a story
• Mini-lesson: Readers get to know characters
• Mini-lesson: Readers gather information about characters by writing sticky notes
• Mini-lesson: Readers notice characters’ feelings
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify character feelings
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify secondary characters and how they help the main character
• Mini-lesson: Readers infer character traits
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify how a character changes throughout the story
• Mini-lesson: Readers use text evidence to prove their inference
• Mini-lesson: Readers can identify character motivations
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify how a character’s actions contribute to the sequence of events
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify the point of view
• Mini-lesson: Readers ask powerful questions about characters
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify internal and external character traits
• Mini-lesson: Readers can identify how a character responds to challenges
• Mini-lesson: Readers identify their favorite book character and CELEBRATE the end of the unit with a favorite book character party!

Included in this resource:

- 15 scripted mini-lessons

- Colorful posters to display as anchor charts for every mini-lesson

- Student worksheets for every mini-lesson

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Reading Workshop Bundle

Unit 1, Launching Reading Workshop in your Primary Classroom

Implementing Reading Workshop in Your Primary Classroom

Unit 2, Reading Workshop: Metacognition: Thinking about Reading

Reading is Thinking

Unit 3, Implementing Reader's Notebooks with Reading Workshop

Reader’s Notebook

Unit 4, Reading to Learn: Informational Text Features

I Spy Informational Text Features! Other Must-Have Reading Workshop Materials that are included in this bundle:

Unit 5, Character Study Unit

Unit 6, Diving Deep with Book Clubs

Book Clubs

Also included in the bundle:

Classroom Library Kit

Cassroom Library Kit

Reading Workshop Book Awards Celebration

Reading Workshop Book Awards Celebration

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