Lessons tagged with "characterization"

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on determining what characters are like by what they say and do. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify what a character says and does in a story to determine their character traits (e.g., smart, brave, tricky, kind, dishonest, etc.). In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on analyzing characterization. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage about a specific character and identify textual evidence that develops the character's traits. Each sentence from the passage is classified as character's words, actions, or thoughts. Then, students analyze the method the author used to create characterization. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This is a lesson in the Link to Literacy program.