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TITLE: Inferring
Character Traits
AUTHOR: Donna Calder,
Bullhead City
Intermediate
School, Bullhead City, AZ
GRADE
LEVEL/SUBJECT: Reading All Grade
Levels
OVERVIEW: Students must be able to
identify with the
characters in a story to fully comprehend
the story.
This is just one way you and your students will
be able
to identify character
traits.
OBJECTIVE(s): Students will be
able:
1. To recognize character traits and
relationships
among
characters
2. To recognize changes in traits and
relationships
as the book
progresses
RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Teacher:
overhead, transparency, chalkboard.
Students: Good
story to read, large piece
of
drawing paper, pencil or markers,
writing
paper.
ACTIVITIES: This can be done as a whole
group, small
groups, or as individuals, depending on the
abilities
of your class. If this is to be done as a
whole class
use an overhead transparency and the students
each make
their own semantic map while you do your semantic
map
on the
board.
INFERRING CHARACTER TRAITS
Think: Who is the main
character?
Do: Write
that name in the center of a
large
piece of paper.
Think: What is he or she
like?
Do: Write
descriptions under the name,
then
draw a box around the name and
all
descriptors.
Think: Who else is important in the
story?
Do: Write their
names evenly spaced around
the
center box.
Think: How does the main character
feel about them?
Do:
Write responses on arrows running
away
from the center box toward each other box.
Think:
How does each minor character feel about
the
main
character?
Do: Write
responses on arrows running from
the
outer boxes toward the center box.
When you have
finished filling out the boxes described
above, write how
you felt about the main character at
the beginning; at the
end of the story.
You might want your students to
change a character
trait of the main character and decide
how that might
change the story.
Have the students
select their favorite character and
write a BIO POEM that
is to be shared with all or part
of the
class
BIO POEM
First name
________________________________________
Four traits
_______________________________________
Related to
________________________________________
Cares deeply for
__________________________________
Who feels
_________________________________________
Who needs
_________________________________________
Who gives
_________________________________________
Who would like to
see _____________________________
Resident of
_______________________________________
Example of
a BIO POEM
Snow White
Beautiful, giving, loving,
unhappy
The Queen, her wicked stepmother
The seven
dwarfs
Safe in the forest
The love of a Prince
Love
to the seven dwarfs
Goodness throughout the kingdom
The
forest.
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