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| Grades | K – 6 |
| Printout Type | Graphic Organizer |
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ABOUT THIS PRINTOUT |
Who are the characters in this story? Students will examine what a character looks like, what a character does, and how other characters react to him or her.
Help students progress from impressions or reactions about a character to a deeper understanding of the character's attributes.
- Choose a character from any book, short story, play, poem, or film and ask students to start describing the character.
- Project an overhead of the character map and ask students to recall some of their descriptions. In which category would they fall (appearance, actions, or reactions of others)?
- Write their responses in the boxes. Are they evenly distributed among each, or are most in one area? Ask students for suggestions to describe the character in all three areas.
- Have students write a paragraph discussing the character and their reactions to the character using the graphic organizer for reference.
Students can then use the printout independently to describe any other character
- Students write a character sketch of a favorite or assigned character, based on the information gathered for the Character Map.
- Use the Character Map in creative writing. Students answer questions on the map to fully develop characters that they are inventing.
- Use two copies of Character Map to prepare students for a compare/contrast essay on two characters.
- When studying dynamic characters, have students complete the Character Map early in a text. Put their work aside and ask them to complete another Map after finishing. Then compare and contrast the two.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students’ independent writing ability.
