Lessons tagged with "characters"

This reading lesson requires students to describe characters in a story. Reading passages can be read aloud, or chorally for students that might need extra help reading. Teacher should guide students in analyzing each sentence to find textual evidence (key details) that supports the character’s description. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying characters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the story and think about who talks or does something in order to identify character(s). 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 comparing and contrasting characters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students compare and contrast what is the same and different between characters in a story. 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 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.

In this reading literature lesson, students will describe the various characters in the story. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.

This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on contrasting the motives and actions of characters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the passage about two characters and complete a graphic organizer identifying the motives and actions of each character as well as the outcome. Then, they answer a multiple choice question that contrasts the motives and actions. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This Common Core writing lesson requires students to plan and write a narrative. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students are given a prompt and must plan a situation, setting, characters, events, and resolution. Students then take their notes and write a first draft of their narrative. Lesson also includes a checklist for students to reference and a printable graphic organizer for repeated use. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This writing lesson requires students to write a previously planned narrative. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, Students take their notes from the previous lesson and write a first draft of their narrative and edit their composition.

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying characters in a narrative story. The lesson is intended to be taught as a read-aloud, with Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews to be teacher guided. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.