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Characters Anchor Chart

Help students identify who a story is about and recognize its main character. A completed chart and fill-in companion support a short lesson or shared-reading discussion.
Grades
Grades 1–3
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Apr 04, 2022

Subject
ELA, Literature
Topic
Characters, Character traits
Resource types
Anchor Charts
Answer key
Included
Standards
RL.1.3

Product description

From the author

This resource is a set of 2 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.

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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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • RL.1.3

Core concepts

  • Characters

  • Main character

  • Story elements

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