Julie Bernhard
5th grade lesson plan
Cooperating Teacher: Ms. Weglarz
Student Teaching

Character Trait Lesson Plan

  1. Educational Objectives

SWBAT analyze and identify character traits.

NJCCCS:

RL.5.2.Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

RI.5.8.Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

W.5.3.Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective

technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

  • Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
  • Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
  • Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
  • Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
  1. Instructional Materials & Resources
  1. What will you need to prepare your lesson?
  2. What will you need to use during the lesson?
  1. Walk Two Moons novel
  2. Identifying Character Traits worksheet
  3. Adjectives and Character Traits worksheet
  4. Sample Character Traits worksheet
  5. Character Trait identification sheet
  6. Song and Dance Man book
  7. SmartBoard
  1. Vocabulary:
  2. Character trait: descriptive adjectives that tell the reader specific qualities of the character
  1. Procedures
  1. Anticipatory Set
  2. Students will be asked to close their eyes and listen carefully to
    the description of the character, Mrs. Winterbottom, taken
    from the novel Walk Two Moons.
  3. We will then discuss what they pictured from the reading
  4. After discussing what they “saw” during the reading, I will introduce the term “character trait"
  5. Body of the Lesson
  1. I will distribute the character traits worksheet
  2. After handing out a worksheet to each student, we will read it as a class
  3. Once discussing the worksheet, I will read Song and Dance Man
  4. While I read the book out loud, I will have the students fill out the character traits identification worksheet
  5. After completing the book I will allot 5 minutes for each group to discuss the character traits they came up with and then we will reconvene as a class to discuss some traits we came up with.
  1. Closure & Extension
  1. We will wrap the lesson up with a character trait game on the smartboard
  2. I will then review with the students about how authors try to create a mental picture of
    their characters in order to understand them better. Have them explain some
    ways an author can do this (by describing how a character looks, speaks, thinks
    and acts.)
  1. Assessment/Evaluation
  1. I will be assessing the students based on (observations, quiz, presentation, etc.)?
  2. Did they meet/exceed the educational objectives? How will you evaluate how well each students learned (rubric, observation checksheets, rating scales, numeric/letter grades)?