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Lesson Plan: Characters- Paperbag Princess

Subject:  ELA- Reading

Grade: 3

Lesson Objective: To identify different characters traits in a story

Common Core Standard:  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

Materials:

Starter:

Say:

  • Who is your favorite character in a book and why?  (Allow the students to answer.)

Main:

Say:

  • All books that we read have different characters in them.  We like certain characters and don’t like others because of their character traits.
  • A character trait is a word that describes a character’s personality or things that make them who they are.
  • Everyone has character traits- you, me and characters in books and movies.  You can figure out character traits by paying attention to what a character says or does.
  • For example, if there is a character that is always taking care of animals, what character traits do you think they would have?  (Allow the students to answer.)
  • Some of their character traits would probably be caring, kind, gentle and thoughtful.
  • Another example is a character that is always frowning and telling other characters what to do.  What character traits do you think this character would have?  (Allow the students to answer.)
  • This character’s traits might be mean, unfriendly and bossy.
  • Sometimes a character’s traits are really easy to figure out and sometimes they are harder to figure out.  Make sure to think about everything that a character does when figuring out their character traits.
  • You are now going to read The Paperbag Princess.  While you are reading, I want you to think about the characters and their traits.
  • After you have finished reading, there are questions for you to answer.  Write the answers to the questions that are below the story.
  • Does anyone have any questions?

Feedback:

Say:

Who would like to share their answers?  (Allow the students to share and go over the answers and where they came from.)

 

Written by Kimberly Greacen, Education World® Contributing Writer

Kimberly is an educator with extensive experience in curriculum writing and developing instructional materials to align with Common Core State Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.

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