List-Group-Label

We have been closely studying our characters and describing the kind of person that they are in the books that we are reading. Throughout this unit we have brainstormed A LOT of character traits. We talked about how character traits describe who we are and what kind of person we are on the inside.

Looking at this huge list that we created, we decided to talk about how we can group words together. I started the discussion by grouping mean and rude together and I gave a reason to why I thought that they belonged together.

Students continued to lead the discussion by grouping character traits together. Students agreed and disagreed with each other for some character traits. For example, one student wanted curious to go over with smart and problem solver since this kind of person would always be interested in finding out more about something. Another student disagreed with this by saying that a curious person could be caught doing something that wasn't good and get in trouble.

After students agreed on the grouping, they decided to label each group. This is what we came up with!

The strategy that we used was LIST-GROUP-LABEL

• We created a list of character traits (across a few weeks in our read aloud time)
• We grouped the words together while providing support to why we were making that choice
• We labeled each group

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http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/list_group_label

This strategy is really fun to use within a Science or Social Studies unit! It helps build content knowledge and vocabulary.