Characters Anchor Chart
- Grades
- Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–2, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Characters, Reading
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts, Teacher Tools
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This resource is a set of 2 charts">anchor charts for the teaching about characters in the story. The first chart is complete. The following chart is fill in the blank. These charts would work great on a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Define 'characters' as the people or animals a story is about
Identify the main character as the character most central to a story's action
Teaching tips
Display the completed version as a permanent classroom reference after first using the fill-in-the-blank version interactively with students
Use the blank version during a shared read-aloud, filling in the missing words together as a class discussion rather than assigning it as independent seatwork
Pair with a familiar read-aloud book so students can immediately apply the main-character definition to a character they already know
Skills covered
Character concept identification — students define 'characters' and identify the main character as central to a story's action, using a fill-in-the-blank version of the chart during class discussion.
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Characters
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