An activity work alongside a narrative text of your choice. With reading comprehension at its focus, readers complete worksheets covering character descriptions.

Concepts

reading, characters, character descriptions, retelling, retelling stories, summaries, narratives

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Direct learners to keep worksheets in their binder or interactive reading journal for quick and easy access
• Assign the activity to an English language arts center—instruct pupils to work on the given practice page and rotate in a timely fashion
• Create a book report-type sharing of worksheet information—invite class members to showoff a narrative text they read with a summary and a walkthrough of the activity

Classroom Considerations

• Requires copies and choosing an appropriate text

Pros

• The activity comes with multiple worksheets 
• Offers ideas for adaptions and extensions 

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.3 RL.5.2 RL.5.3