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Character Traits Anchor Chart – 4-Chart Set

Two paired anchor charts teach students to infer a story character's traits from thoughts, feelings, actions, and how others describe them.
Year groups
Primary, Years 2–3
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Apr 02, 2022

Subject
Reading, English
Topic
Anchor Charts, Reading Printable
Resource types
Anchor Charts, Teacher Tools
Preparation
Print ready
England expectations
Official curriculum expectation · Comprehension

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About this resource

This resource is a set of 4 charts">anchor charts for teaching character traits. The first chart is complete. The following 3 charts are 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

  • 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 analyze 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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What is the difference between the two chart topics in this set?

The first chart maps four categories used to derive a character's traits (thoughts/words, feelings, actions, others' descriptions); the second explains the same four categories in sentence form and adds the 'I know this because...' evidence frame.

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National Curriculum in England

National Curriculum in England expectations

England expectations

  • Official curriculum expectation · Comprehension — England Years 3–4 English reading comprehension: drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.

Core concepts

  • Character traits

  • Text evidence

  • Reading comprehension

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