Lesson Plan
Choosing Character Traits
Use this lesson to help your ELs learn character traits and find them in a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Identifying Character Traits lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to identify character traits and find portions of textual evidence to support them.
Language
Students will be able to identify characters with nouns and associated pronouns using strategic group activitites.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Choose a student to read the language objective to the class. Ask another student to reread the objective and give examples of a character trait from a recent picture book.
- Distribute the sticky notes and ask students to write down their definition of a character trait.
- Define character traits as words and phrases that describe a character’s behavior or attitude. Allow students to talk to their elbow partner to share their definition with each other.