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Lesson Plan
Subject: Reading
Teacher: Ariana Reid
Grade: 03
Date: 11/15/2015
Standard: 3. LT-EF.14
Standard Name: Identify character traits in a story.
Objective: Students will be able to identify character traits of characters in a story.
Do-Now: Round robin activity. Create a list of a minimum of 5 characters that you have studied so far in your class. Put their names on chart paper and post in 5 areas of the room, have students count off by 5’s and circulate in groups. Tell them they can write one word they could use to describe the character that they see. You can also do this with as many characters as you have students for. You can put it on paper and pass it around, or each group of students seated at a table can do one character or pass around characters at the table.
Opening: Raise your hand if you can describe to me what we were doing today in our do now. Ask students to explore how they came up with the words that they did or why they chose certain words or phrases to describe certain characters.
Directed Instruction:
Today we are going to figure out how to recognize characters by utilizing words that we will call attributes. Characteristics are words that we can use to show a character's identity or how they are as a character. How about we take a gander at a portion of the words that we use to depict characters: I see a ton of you utilized words that are cheerful, tragic, frantic, we are going to attempt and make tracks in an opposite direction from utilizing words that are "straightforward" to portray characters and rather utilize words that are more perplexing vocabulary. How about we make a rundown of the majority of the words we can use to depict a character's qualities. Utilize the character quality asset manual for help understudy's rundown characteristics. Make a rundown of character qualities for students to need to use as an asset on graph paper.
Guided Practice: Compete a read aloud with students that has characters displayed that would be easy for students to list traits for. As you are reading put the character in the center of the chart paper and add traits around the character to you can identify all of the traits. Guide students on making intelligent decisions about the choice of words they are using to describe a character and make sure they are citing evidence as to why they are selecting the trait they are choosing.
Independent Practice:
Students will complete a similar organizer or graphic organizer that you modeled on their own, in independent or just right books, they can also do this during guided reading groups. Students should complete a similar organizer or activity that mirrors what you modeled.
Closing: What trait would you describe for yourself and why?
