teaching resource

Character Traits Interactive Activity

Updated: 10 Jul 2023

Analyse text and identify character traits of characters with a Google Slides Interactive activity.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 3

Curriculum

VC2E2LE03

Discuss the plots, characters and settings of a range of literary texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways <ul> <li>comparing how similar characters or settings are described in texts from different contexts, for example how the seasons are described</li> <li>identifying and comparing verb groups used to convey actions, emotions and dialogue in a range of literary texts</li> <li>identifying the language used to describe the landscape in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories</li> </ul>
VC2E3LE03

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to build plots and portray characters and settings in literary texts, and explore how mood is created through settings and events <ul> <li>identifying and discussing how the use of descriptive language creates setting, influences atmosphere and draws readers into events that follow, for example ‘The castle loomed dark and forbidding.’</li> <li>discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations, for example ‘Dev was so lonely; he desperately wanted a pet, so he hatched a plan to get what he wanted.’</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Character Traits Interactive Activity

Updated: 10 Jul 2023

Analyse text and identify character traits of characters with a Google Slides Interactive activity.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 3

Analyse text and identify character traits of characters with a Google Slides Interactive activity.

Toss that Character Traits Worksheet!

Your character traits lessons don’t have to be basic with interactive activities from Teach Starter. We’ve put together an activity to have your primary students analysing text and identifying character traits in no time!

This activity presents the learner with twenty different scenarios to read and analyse. For each of the passages, the students will choose the character trait or feeling that is being demonstrated. They will then click, drag and drop the correct answer into the answer box.

Through this activity, students will demonstrate comprehension and show their ability to analyse a fictional character and determine the positive or negative character traits being demonstrated by the character.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your Reading lessons.

In addition to individual student work time, use this activity to enhance learning through guided reading groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments.

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners and ELL/ESL students, we have a few suggestions for keeping students on track with these concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Support struggling readers by providing read-aloud accommodations or by having them partner with a stronger reading partner to complete the activity.
Provide ELL/ESL students with definitions and/or images depicting the different character trait options on the slides.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Challenge your fast finishers to read fictional books from the classroom library and identify the character traits being demonstrated by the characters in the book.

🧑‍🏫 Group Learning

Project the slides onto a screen and work through them as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks or mini whiteboards.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the Download button to download the Google Slides or PowerPoint resource.

Please be sure to open in Edit mode, not Presentation mode. Students click/drag/drop to identify the character traits being shown in the story.

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Curriculum

VC2E2LE03

Discuss the plots, characters and settings of a range of literary texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways <ul> <li>comparing how similar characters or settings are described in texts from different contexts, for example how the seasons are described</li> <li>identifying and comparing verb groups used to convey actions, emotions and dialogue in a range of literary texts</li> <li>identifying the language used to describe the landscape in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories</li> </ul>
VC2E3LE03

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to build plots and portray characters and settings in literary texts, and explore how mood is created through settings and events <ul> <li>identifying and discussing how the use of descriptive language creates setting, influences atmosphere and draws readers into events that follow, for example ‘The castle loomed dark and forbidding.’</li> <li>discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations, for example ‘Dev was so lonely; he desperately wanted a pet, so he hatched a plan to get what he wanted.’</li> </ul>

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