Characters Teaching Resources
A collection of resources to help students engage with characters in texts that they read. Activities include character profile, comprehension tasks, unit plans, classroom literacy posters, Fakebook pages, hands on activities. This collection also includes blogs with inspiring ideas to help excite your students to study literacy.
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Free Character Traits List
Teach your students to analyze characters more effectively by providing them with a list of character traits.
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Character Development – Fakebook Page Worksheet
Use research and creative writing skills to design a social media profile for fiction or nonfiction persons.
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Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Describe the most notable mental and moral qualities of a real or fictional person.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
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Jack Be Nimble - Story Element Worksheets
Demonstrate learning about the parts of a story with a printable set of Jack be Nimble Story Element worksheets.
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Humpty Dumpty Teaching Slides - All About Characters
Engage young readers in texts and learn about characters with an instructional slide deck featuring the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.
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Hickory Dickory Dock - Story Elements Slide Deck
Engage young readers in texts and discover parts of a story with an interactive version of Hickory Dickory Dock.
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Hickory Dickory Dock - Story Elements Worksheet Pack
Demonstrate learning about the parts of a story with a printable set of Hickory Dickory Dock worksheets.
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Kindergarten Story Elements - Instructional Slides
Introduce your kindergarten and first-grade students to the elements of a story using this interactive Google Slides teaching presentation.
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Character Traits: Interactive Activity
Analyze text and identify character traits of characters with a Google Slides Interactive activity.
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Character Analysis Task Cards
Use these task cards to practice analyzing characters within any fictional text.
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Book Character Profile - Stage and Curtains
A fun character profile worksheet set on a theater stage.
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MLK Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Use our graphic organizer with your students when studying Martin Luther King, Jr.’s notable mental and moral qualities.
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Direct and Indirect Characterization
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterization.
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What's At Stake Poster
A poster to display in your classroom when teaching students how to build characters for a story.
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Movie Versus Book - Template
A template where students compare and review a movie and a book and construct a 3-D popcorn box.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Creating a Fairy Tale Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a character for a fairy tale.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Exploring Fairy Tale Characters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the methods authors use to create a character.
- Characters Templates
- Characters Posters
- Characters Instructional Slide Decks
- Characters Worksheets
- Characters Graphic Organizers
- Characters Labels Signs Decorations
- Characters Task Cards
- Characters Games
- Characters Interactive Activities
- Characters for Pre-K
- Characters for Kindergarten
- Characters for 1st Grade
- Characters for 2nd Grade
- Characters for 3rd Grade
- Characters for 4th Grade
- Characters for 5th Grade
- Characters for 6th Grade
- Characters for 7th Grade