Young scholars will explore characters created by authors and identify personality traits, and then apply these ideas to their own characters using language skills identified to convey these traits. Students will write a character sketch, shaping, editing, and reworking the text, and using vocabulary and conventions such as spelling and sentence structure.

Concepts

characterization

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Additional Tags

creating characters, identify personality traits of characters, write a character sketch, archived english online units, english online, english units: years 5-8, nz ministry of education

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

W.5.3.b W.5.9.a RL.5.6