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.

This activity addresses the types of characters found in stories and the methods authors use to build characters.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart uses examples from children's literature to explore character. It includes writing activities and challenges children to think from the character's point of view.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review and assessment of a collection of short stories. The following literary terms are applied to the stories: plot structure, types of characters, characterization, irony,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will read an online story that integrates the use of tangrams. They will then use problem solving skills to recreate characters for the story.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart Activotes are used to help students recall identities of major characters, quotes, and literary terms in Shakespearean play, Midsummer Night's Dream.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create stories based on alien worlds. They have choices of characters, planets, and spaceships.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fun lesson features three characters: Meta, the metamorphic rock; Iggy, the igneous rock; and Sid, the sedimentary rock. Students explore characteristics of each type of rock, play games, fill out...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Place the characters in various parts of Pompeii to check your knowledge of this ancient Roman town.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on identifying character traits in characters. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment using Activotes. In addition there is practice with vocabulary, phonics, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students drag and drop the witch, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth into the appropriate scene. Descriptive words involving these characters are given. It is intended for grades 6-8.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces setting to students using picture clues first and then using only contextual clues. Activotes are also used to check for understanding.

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains story elements to be used with the novel, The Watson's go to Birmingham. It is possible to change the flipchart to fit any novel being read at that time.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.

[Free Registration/Login Required] If your class is reading Charlotte's Web, you may want to download this flipchart filled with activities to do with your students. The flipchart contains a character match up game, an animal mix-up...