Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Characteristics

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Character Expression Using the Three Little Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will use the character lineup strategy in collaborative groups to retell the story of the Three Little Pigs. Each group will be assigned a different character or emotion and then compare the differences between each group....
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.g Defining Attributes of Rectangles & Parallelograms

For Teachers 4th
At early stages of understanding of geometric shapes, 4th graders describe shapes, but do not yet characterize shapes by their properties. One example of a misconception students have at this stage is that a rectangle has two short sides...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature; American Romanticism: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on defining the literary terms in American Romanticism. It features a list of terms and an interactive crossword puzzle using them.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Stock Characters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on stock characters; it defines the term, explains characteristics of stock characters, and provides examples from literature.
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Quia

Quia: There's More to Character Than Meets the Eye

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Twenty flashcards with character vocabulary words and their definitions.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: There's More to Character Than Meets the Eye

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Play a matching game by joining each type of character with its definition.
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Quia

Quia: Character Terms

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Complete each sentence by typing the correct character word into each box in this ten-question quiz.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students use trading cards to examine fictional characters in a story.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Character 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on characters where students learn about a story's protagonist and antagonist and the relationship between them by reading the book Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser. With free login,...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing Two Cinderella Stories

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will compare two characters and list their comparisons on a graphic organizer using modern Cinderella stories. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan for guided practice and partner work, and a video of students engaged in...
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Examining a Character's Personalities

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan young scholars will be able to understand the different personalities of a character by examining how they act when in contact with other characters. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Introduction to Character Traits

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan students will better understand what and how to generate the traits of a character. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: You Are What You Say Personality Profiles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan students will develop personality profiles by analyzing the quotes of a character, historical figure, present day figure, etc. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Round vs. Flat Characters

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson introduces and defines round and flat characters in fiction writing.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Ela: Character Traits

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Four video clips followed by questions to help students learn to identify character traits in literary texts.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines the elements of a story: character, setting, theme, and conflict.
Article
University of New Brunswick (Canada)

Seeing and Surviving in Timothy Findley's Short Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
A critical look at characterization--"an act which helps to define both individual characters and the relationships among characters"--in Timothy Findley's short stories.
Website
Other

Avatar Consultants, Inc: Definitions of Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Sound is defined and characterized as a wave consisting of oscillations in pressure of a medium. Includes graphics and links to further information.