Internal and external character traits anchor chart

Character Traits! 👩🏽‍🎤👨🏽‍🏭👩🏽‍🚀👩🏾‍🎨🕵🏼‍♀️ External vs Internal Traits. We read one of our favorite beginning of the year books ➡️ The Recess…

Check out these FREE character trait activities! This blog post contains a character traits anchor chart and an idea for a character trait lesson where students learn more challenging character trait vocabulary to create a collaborative class book! If you

Need an anchor chart to teach character traits? Here it is! This anchor chart is based on the book “The Recess Queen”. I use these anchor charts everyday in my class to really engage my students with the skill I am teaching. The anchor charts allow the students to understand what they are learning by using colorful pictures, easy to read phrases and characters that they know. I can customize the anchor charts to any book, character or theme you are interested in. Will be shipped in poster…

Help your students understand that a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, and dialogue- their character traits- make up their personality! Encourage them to dig deeper into the text to understand characters.

ELA Anchor Charts: External and Internal Character Traits

Teaching students about character traits beyond the standard 'kind and mean' can be challenging, especially in the upper grades where not only are students expected to identify specific character traits, but also discuss how events in the story change the character, and how the character impacts the plot. The good news is that providing them with scaffolds and a variety of examples can really impact their knowledge of character traits.

Using interactive activities like anchor charts and crafts really help students get involved and excited about learning about character traits. Your students will be character trait experts after completing these activities.

Internal & External Character Conflicts

Analyzing character traits is a key fiction reading skill that is needed for successful comprehension. In most cases, authors do not just come out and tell readers the traits that a character possesses. By teaching

A primer for newbies and a refresher for anchor chart pros!