Reading and Writing Activities

South Carolina ELA Standards: RL.MC.8.1, W.MCC.3, W.MCC.2

Character Trait Matching

The story of the Rainbow Fish highlights lots of strong characters. We describe characters using character traits. Test your knowledge of different character traits by playing the matching game below! When you click on the link, you will see purple boxes and yellow boxes. The yellow boxes hold character trait words, and the purple boxes contain scenarios describing a person. Drag the character trait to the scenario that BEST describes a person who could be described using that character trait. Then discuss as a class!

Additional variations for the matching including sorting the traits/scenarios into positive and negative character traits or creating new scenarios for the character traits.

**Note: This matching game is not self checking. You will have to check your students' work.

There is also a PDF version of the matching game if you would prefer to print and cut. Additionally, this PDF can serve as your "answer key"- the character traits and scenarios are lined up correctly. 

Writing: Write a Letter to the Rainbow Fish

Write a friendly letter to the Rainbow Fish. Think about what you  might tell him, what advice you might give him and what questions you have for him. 

Consider these sentence starters:

I wish you would...

I am proud of you for...

I understand why you...

If I were you, I would...

I have learned one way to be a good friend is...

I think you should...

Start your letter with "Dear Rainbow Fish", .... and don't forget to sign your name at the end!

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