University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "You Tell Me"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Helps with students' comprehension skills, higher-order thinking skills, knowledge and inference skills, grammar and usage. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Had Power"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students metacognitive skills, higher-order thinking skills, and makes students more aware of their environment. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Feelings"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity focuses on a student's feelings in providing them with a sense of self-discovery and understanding of their value. Good resource.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Woop for Classrooms: Self Control
WOOP is a practical, accessible, evidence-based activity that helps students find and fulfill their wishes. In character development terms, WOOP builds self-control. WOOP is named for each step in the process: identifying your Wish,...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Do You Mean?"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Used to motivate students to use higher-level thinking skills, read, and develop an appreciation for their culture. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Kill a Mockingbird: Building Knowledge
As a conclusion to a class study of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, students create models and pictures based on the novel's descriptions to illustrate the effect of setting on plot and character.
Other
Building Characters With Adversity
Extensive and very interesting article advising the reader on how to develop characters through adversity.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Caillou Paper Dolls for Vocabulary Building
Children learn vocabulary, using character dolls from the popular TV series on PBS stations, Caillou, as learning tools. Use Caillou and Rosie dolls and an assortment of outfits to talk about clothing, the verbs that go with dressing,...
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The Giraffe Heroes Project
The Giraffe Heroes Project honors people "who stick their necks out for the common good." This site tells the stories of these ordinary people who have shown the character to stand up against injustice or misfortune in real, effective...
EL Education
El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Fly to Freedom
Students build a working definition of slavery by looking at examples and non-examples, use the book The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton to identify internal and external conflict, and finally complete a writing assignment focusing...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Build Connections for Classrooms: Curiosity
Lead your students to understand how their existing interests relate to the content they learn in school by using this scripted activity. This 30-minute activity can have benefits across the curriculum. Printables and examples of...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Duck for President
First graders build on their knowledge of positive character traits and those valued in a good citizen and leader by exploring rules, laws, elections, and the presidency. Through the anchor text, 1st graders discuss the details of the...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
Read Works
Read Works: The Process of Acting
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about acting and how one actor prepares for her roles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Helping a Friend
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Zoe who knows that helping a friend is more important than winning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: I Need Quiet!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kahlil who figured out a way to eliminate noisy distractions so he could read. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: My Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the Quabbin Lake Singers who share their Native American culture through song. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
Read Works
Read Works: Instrumental Talent
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Ruby Jane Smith, a 12-year-old who plays 11 different instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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