Characters By misswalton

graphic organizers work well for me. you can do quilt squares where there's a small square in the middle and four lines connecting the corners of the small square and the bigger square. In the small square right the characters

name. Then in the other 4 sections do things like - draw how the character look, draw a friend of the character, draw where the friend lives, and then how the 2 characters feel about each other at the end of the story. You can also do webs with the characters name in the middle. Character pyrimids work too. There you can stack up different things about the characters

such as traits, qualities, hwo the character changes, relationships they have, feelings, actions or behaviors, and problems.

Character dolls are cute too. You have two dolls connected at the arms and legs. One represents one character and the other doll another. The students can write to compare and contrast the two characters. Or both dolls can be one character. you could describe the characters appearance, actions, dralogue and relationships on one and on the other talk about how the character changes from beginning to end.

You could create a chart. it could have three columns. In the first column the students would write a feeling the character felt. Then they would have to find the page number and write it in the next column and then write or draw proof of that feeling in the last column. On another chart you could have two columns/4 rows. the top of each row says something like sees, does, feels, and thinks, and then below each the students have to describes what the character sees, does, etc. inthe story.

Venn Diagrams work wonders...

Talk about verbs and adjectives to help describe the characters

I'm not sure if any of these help. There are TONS of literature books available that have re-printables about character traits. Good luck - let me know if you need more ideas :)

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