This wonderful unit focused on Inferring Character Traits is the perfect unit to introduce your students to how they can begin inferring character traits in stories through their actions, words, thoughts, and feelings. It incorporates a number of hands on activities for students to begin delving into characters and their development.
Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect