Yesterday, students developed their characters as they filled in a T Chart for their character's internal and external characteristics. They had to think of everything, like hair color to habits of their character to behavior. We used Kate DiCamillo, the author of books we have read aloud, to help us. We notice in her books that she often has a character doing something repeatedly, like wiping their nose with the back of their hand, or sucking on a finger, so we tried to make our character do something too. Then students had to draw a detailed picture of their main character, and if they could include the setting of their story in the background, that would help them even more when it comes time to write their stories. I can't wait to see what these characters are going to be doing and saying in the students' realistic fiction stories!
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Maria Gonzalez
1/10/2024 02:52:51 pm
How can I purchase your External/Internal Character Traits template?
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