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I have 5 PERFECT activity ideas to incorporate into your reading strategy lessons.
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Elementary students LOVE being creative and making art.
Bring art into your reading block!
My favorite way?
Make a classroom character trait quilt!
Have a list of character traits.
Each student will pick a different character trait to illustrate.
Give each student a piece of paper, and they will create a visual representation of their character traits.
Tape all the character traits together to form a big quilt to display on your wall or outside your classroom.
Together, look at each piece of the quilt and see what pictures and images students chose to illustrate and explain the trait.
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Say bye-bye to boring reading comprehension worksheets.
Students need to be able to read a text and comprehend what they are reading and answer questions on character traits.
I created these color-by-number worksheets so that you can assess students on this reading strategy, while students get to have fun with a coloring “reward” at the end!
Each passage is relatively short so a student won’t take up an entire class period to read.
There are four questions for each passage, so you can quickly assess students on exactly what they know.
Each question is about character traits, so you can hone in on this particular strategy.
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Read-alouds are an engaging way to teach character traits.
Read a book aloud, then together as a group brainstorm character traits for numerous characters in the book.
Here are some books that work especially well with character traits (all are Amazon Affiliate links, but most definitely will be in your school library!):
Gamification is huge in the education world right now – and it’s easy to see why!
It’s so dang fun!
Character traits are an easy concept to gamify – make it into charades!
Have a list of cards available with different character traits written on them (ambitious, kind, curious, thoughtful, mischievous, etc.).
Students will draw a card, then act it out to the class.
The class will raise their hand and try to guess what character trait is being acted out!
This is a great way to learn new character traits that students may not be familiar with.
You’ll have a few students who won’t want to get up in front of the class – totally okay.
Guessing the character trait is just as important as acting it out 🙂
This is a fabulous way to incorporate character traits into your writer’s workshop block.
Students will be conducting interviews with a family member (but you could also do this in class and pick classmates!).
Students will ask their interviewee about what 3 character traits they possess.
What is really neat about this project is that students are going to learn about some all-new character traits that they may have never even heard of!
Some questions you could have students ask:
Why is the character trait important?
How can the character trait be challenging?
Have you always had this character trait?
How has this character trait helped you in life?
When all students have completed their interviews, they will share what they learned with the class!
They can bring in photos as well.
This one is SO FUN and your students will be over the moon to get to interview someone like they are a TV reporter 🙂
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