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Abwag: Learn About Acting
Student awareness and appreciation of acting will be enhanced after discovering the tricks of the trade. They will learn how to act, feel and think in an acting environment.
Quia
Quia: There's More to Character Than Meets the Eye
Twenty flashcards with character vocabulary words and their definitions.
Quia
Quia: Character Terms
Complete each sentence by typing the correct character word into each box in this ten-question quiz.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Developing Characters and Settings
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Character Map
Help students analyze a particular character with this character map that helps them examine character appearance, actions, and how others respond to them. Ideas for its use are provided.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Determining Methods of Characterization [Pdf]
A brief organizer in which students can document how a character in literature is presented, through either direct or indirect characterization. Provides labels, examples, and sections for textual support.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conflict: Character vs. Nature
This lesson introduces character vs. nature conflict in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Describing Characters
This lesson introduces how to describe characters from a work of fiction.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characters and Setting
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characters and Theme
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and theme in fiction writing. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analyzing Characterization
This lesson introduces the elements of character analysis and uses Poe's "Tell Tale Heart" for an example. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters
EL Education
El Education: Kurare
After researching slavery and personal experiences of slaves with primary and secondary resources, students create a fictional character that is historically and geographically accurate. Character files include a portrait, a narrative...
EL Education
El Education: Mary Jo Wellington
After researching primary and secondary resources on slavery, students create a fictional character file that is both historically and geographically accurate and demonstrates an understanding of the humanness of slaves.
EL Education
El Education: Molly Sanchez
Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...
TES Global
Blendspace: Character Traits
A seven-part learning module on character traits and how to identify them. Lessons include links to lessons, a character traits list, videos and graphic organizers.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Secret Garden
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frances Hodgson Burnett's Secret Garden and highlight words that describe Mary's looks in blue and words that describe her actions in red.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story: Characters
The interactive story lesson engages students in the study of "characters" and terms associated with them. Using the story of Cinderella as an anchor story, students will identify the following: hero, villain, protagonist, antagonist,...
Read Works
Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Little Match Girl
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Hans Anderson's Little Match Girl teachers can engage children in high quality discussion and support language development.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Doctor De Soto
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on identifying character traits in characters. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment using Activotes. In addition there is practice with vocabulary, phonics, and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Horton Hatches the Egg Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a collection of reading activities based on the book - Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr. Seuss.