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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Hans Anderson's Little Match Girl teachers can engage children in high quality discussion and support language development.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart analyzes how individual paragraphs are structured in writing, examining comments sequenced to follow the shifting thoughts of a character. There are examples listed to justify a point and...