Learning About Characters

We are into our  character unit in Reading Workshop. In doing so, we learned how characters display a variety of traits such as clever, creative, imaginative, bossy, etc. We used evidence from the stories to make these inferences by what the characters said, did, thought and felt. Some of the characters that we read about were:

• Flossie from Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
• Pinky, Rex and Amanda from Pinky and Rex by James Howe
• Sassy from Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
• Max from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• Lily from Lily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes