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I. Essential Questions:
Can students use evidence from a text to describe character traits?
II. Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.9.A
Apply grade 4 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Describe in depth a
character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in
the text [e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions].").
Objectives Assessments
Students will be able to distinguish the The teacher will assess this by instructing
difference between emotions and traits. the students to write on their whiteboard
one example of a trait and one example of
an emotion.
Students will be able to pull evidence of The teacher will assess the students by
character traits from a text. observing their work as they read their
books and identify their characters traits.
Students will be able to identify character The teacher will assess the students by
traits but using their inferencing skills. giving them a worksheet in which they
must write the characters traits, actions,
dialogue, and emotions from the book they
are reading. The teacher will go around the
room talking to the students and seeing
what they are writing.
IV. Materials:.
Whiteboards and marker
Worksheet
Personal book
V. Pre-lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge
Students will already know how to make an inference from a text. They will
also know what character emotions are. The students know how to examine a
text and pull information from it.
Lesson beginning:
2. The teacher will ask the students to write a trait that would describe themselves
on their whiteboards and then hold them up.
3. The teacher will then have the students take out their own personal reading
books along with a worksheet where they will have to write about their own
characters.
4. At the end, the teacher will have volunteers to share what they have written
down.
Transitions: The teacher will chime the bell or do the clap pattern
where the students have to clap back.
Closure: At the end after the students fill out their worksheet, the
teacher will ask for volunteers to raise their hand and share their
characters traits chart.