Reading/comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction evidence form text to support their understanding. | |||||
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8(B) describe characters in a story and the reasons for their actions.
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9(B) describe characters in a story and the reasons for their actions and feelings
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((B) describe main characters in works of fiction, including their traits, motivations, and feelings.
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8(B) describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes thye undergo
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6(B)describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes thye undergo
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6(B) explain the roles and functions of characters in various plots, including their relationships and conflcts
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describe characters in a story and their reasons for their actions
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Activities:
- Start by defining what a character is: could be a person or an animal
- Use Kinder list of character traits: http://www.lauracandler.com/
- Describe themselves using a poster with a circle in the middle to put their head and transfer this process to describing characters in their weekly big book story.
- Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley
- Students make a paper bag Turkey puppet and write words to descirbe the character.
- Chrysanthemum by: Kevin Henkes
Interactive Read-Alouds by Linday Hoyt: Story Elements - Character Development
- Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola pg. 119
- T - chart for the two main charaters:
| Strega Nona | Big Anthony |
| old | helpful |
| needs help nice magic bossy | |
- Bubble Map - use a bubble map to describe Strega Nona
- Then show children how you can link several words to create a statement. The list for Strega Nona has: old, needs help, nice, magic, bossy. Use two/three of the words to write a sentence:
- Readers Theather: Later in the Year
- Three Little Pigs- students make masks to represent their character. Then they read/talk with experession. (voice, feelings, etc.)
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