As we navigate through becoming experts on characters in a series, students will...
📚Continue to practice procedures
📚Log their series book reading at home and at school
📚Jot strong post-its about character feelings and traits that include text evidence
📚Practice recognizing character reactions
📚Determine whether characters acted in or out of character based upon what "usually" happens
📚Continue to read with fluency
📚Engage in discussions with book club members about character personalities
See the charts below to track our latest learning!
We revisited some of our trusted charts and resources to ensure we are using appropriate and strong trait vocabulary words to describe our characters' personalities.
CharacterTraitDictionary (1).pdf
Favorite Characters Trait Chart.pdf
CharacterTraitsCategories.pdf
Rate My Post-it Rubric
2Kers became such jot pros that they are now trying to make their post-its stronger. Three additions to our post-its make us look like character experts that are specific!
To enhance our jots and our thoughts about characters, students turned and talked within their book clubs. In order to talk long about a claim, students utilized respectful sentence stems and explained their thinking.