Character Traits Anchor Chart – 4-Chart Set
- Year levels
- Years 2–5
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, English
- Topic
- Anchor Charts, Reading Printable
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E2LE03 — discuss the characters
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About this resource
This resource is a set of 4 anchor charts for teaching character traits. Pages 1 and 3 are completed charts; pages 2 and 4 are corresponding fill-in versions. These charts would work great on a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify a character's traits using clues from thoughts, feelings, actions, and descriptions.
Cite text evidence to justify a chosen character trait.
Apply the four trait-clue categories to analyse a character in a story.
Teaching tips
Display the completed poster as a permanent reference, and use the blank fill-in version as interactive notebook pages during a read-aloud.
Model the sentence frame with a familiar story character before students apply it independently.
Revisit the chart's four trait-clue categories chapter by chapter during a class novel unit.
Skills covered
Character trait inference — students identify a character trait using evidence from thoughts, feelings, actions, and other characters' descriptions.
Text evidence citation — students complete the sentence frame 'I know this because...' to support a trait claim with story details.
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E2LE03 — discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
Core concepts
Core concepts
Character traits
Text evidence
Reading comprehension
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