Character Traits

We have been currently working in a fiction unit by closely studying characters in the books that we are reading. Our current reading unit goes hand in hand with our writing unit as students have developed a character and will write series of stories that include their character getting into trouble and out of trouble.

While using read alouds as our mentor texts, we kept track of character traits from the characters we were reading about in our books.

We then decided that characters in our books are very similar to us! Therefore, we have character traits too! Students brainstormed five character traits that best describe who they are as a person. They shared their ideas with their learning partner and gave reasons to why they believe they are that type of person. This will be an ongoing study for the remainder of the year.





How do students come up with character traits?
They watch their characters closely in their book for...

• how they act
• things they say
• what they are thinking

Why do students do this?

• to understand and get to know their character
• to predict what their character will do and how they will react to situations in their books