Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School

Description

This resource includes a reading unit to teach character traits to upper elementary students. This character traits reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments.

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This unit part of a Genre, Theme, and Character Traits unit BUNDLE for upper grades

This unit includes everything you need to teach {and dig deeper!} character traits in middle grades (4th-8th).

As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I assume my students have an understanding of literary information like character traits. My 5th-8th graders tend to have a basic and simple understanding of things like character traits, but I want them to really be able to analyze and dig deep into these concepts and that is the reason for these types of units.

This unit includes the following:

1. Mini-lessons
2. Interactive notebook pages with examples
3. Common-core standard alignment
4. Teacher data collections sheets
5. Rubrics
6. Pre- assessments and post-assessments with all answer keys

In each lesson you will find the following format:

• Title
• Objectives
• Common Core Standards for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades
• Materials Needed
• Mini-Lesson
• Reader’s Workshop
• Closing

There are 10 mini-lessons in the unit:
1. Pre-Assessment
2. Using Prior Knowledge to Understand Character Traits
3. What are Character Traits?
4. How do we use textual evidence to determine character traits?
5. Reading Response One
6. Why is analyzing character traits important?
7. Digging deeper into character traits.
8. Reading Response Two
9. Character Traits culminating activity.
10. Character traits post-assessment.

Be sure to check out the preview to see a large amount of what you will be getting.