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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Give That Character a Voice With Voki!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This lesson fuses fictional literature with technology through a project-based experience. Students will use the free online resource Voki to bring a fictional character to "life" and deepen their understanding of character, character...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Developing Characters and Settings

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
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EL Education

El Education: Kurare

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
After researching slavery and personal experiences of slaves with primary and secondary resources, students create a fictional character that is historically and geographically accurate. Character files include a portrait, a narrative...
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EL Education

El Education: Molly Sanchez

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...
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EL Education

El Education: Vinnie Di Carlo

For Students 4th - 7th
An online book entitled Vinnie DiCarlo by fifth and sixth grade students from Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. The book includes an in-depth character study based on a character created by the students and...
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Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Character Development in Historical Fiction: Bud, Not Buddy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Big Ideas: Authors write historical fiction to show the reader what it was like to live in a certain time period. Readers can use historical fiction to learn about new settings. People are influenced by and react to their setting so you...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What a Character

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses ways that authors reveal character traits. Students learn to find examples in the literature to demonstrate that character traits. A sample assessment, graphic organizer and web...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Character

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the purpose and types of characters in fiction writing. W.9-10.3b Narrative techn