Character Analysis | Minilessons for Character Traits Actions & Interactions

The Reading Toolkit for Character Analysis will help your readers take note of characters physical appearance, thoughts, dialogue, actions & interactions.

Character Analysis requires readers to notice character traits, feeling and emotions. When noticing characters, your readers should pay attention to a characters feeling, emotions and physical traits, as well as their dialogue, actions and interactions with other characters.

All readers need tools to record, organize and process their thinking about characters within a text. When readers use tools to process their thinking while reading, those processes become visual and begin to transfer into becoming more automatic as they practice and apply the strategy being learned.

Included in this Reading Toolkit for Character Analysis

• 2 Minilessons
  • Character Traits, Feeling/Emotions
  • Noticing Characters (actions, dialogue, author stated feelings & traits, physical appearance, interactions with others)
• Anchor Charts
  • Making Characters Noticings (Observations)
  • Thinking Stems for Tracking Characters and Discussions
• Mini Anchor Charts or Readers Notebook inserts
  • Character Traits
  • Character Feelings & Emotions
  • Making Characters Noticings (Observations)
  • Thinking Stems for Tracking Characters and Discussions
• Bookmarks filled with content
  • Making Characters Noticings (Observations)
  • Thinking Stems for Tracking Characters and Discussions
• Think Sheet for jotting notes while tracking characters
• Think Sheet/Organizer for Character Analysis
• Analyzing My Character