Character change mentor text

Hi everyone! Today I'm here with an update on our shared reading activities! We have spent a lot of time the last few months on fiction story elements.We spend about 2 weeks (4 days a week) on each topic. This is what our schedule has looked like...and this will take us right up to spring break! We started by reading fiction books (whole group) and just practicing our retells (characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end). Next, we focused on the problem & solution in fiction books. We…

Welcome to Part 2 of our Character Study! You can read up on Part 1 HERE! Our Analyzing Character Unit is in FULL swing in our classroom. We started by discussing the different types of characters in our books. Since we’ve had many read alouds and read a lot of mentor texts this year, it...

Teaching students to recognize when a synthesis is happening is DIFFICULT! Like seriously, it was a really hard concept for me to wrap my mind around as a reader. Over time though, I began to see that nearly all characters in a story with a decent plot make some type of change over time. As […]

There are so many picture books to choose from when identifying character traits that it can honestly be a bit overwhelming. This list of 10 essential character analysis mentor texts will help you narrow down all of the options and start planning your lessons! These texts can be used to identify character traits, compare and contrast characters, or track character changes throughout the story. Find the perfect text to make the purpose of your next reading minilesson!

The best books show a main character who grows in some say. This is called a character arc. You'll see incredible arcs in these favorite children's books which will make them life-changing reads.

I wanted to create a set of activities that could be used over and over again throughout the school year, but with a different story each time. We have a new story for the week each week, and we do a variety of activities to target the particular skills and strategies that we are teaching during that particular week. Our district uses Scott Foresman's Reading Street and there are a lot of fun and informative stories within the adoption. I wanted to have a set of printables focused on…

Ideas for teaching character traits in the elementary classroom.

Mentor Texts to teach characters, character traits, how they change, etc.