Lesson Plans

This lesson focuses on identifying and finding evidence for character traits in both themselves and story characters. Students describe these traits using provided sentence frames.

This lesson focuses on inferring character feelings using text-to-self connections. Students will play a game to practice inferring feelings, then connect to the feelings of story characters in a graphic organizer.

This lesson focuses on determining character motivation through action and dialogue clues. Students act as detectives to determine the motivation of a character through a character "case file".