Are you looking for a fun way to teach describing characters and character traits? Try this! Fold each side of a horizontal sheet of paper to the middle. Have the kids draw a picture of the character on the front. Put words to describe the outward appearance of the character on the outside. This can be things that are obvious from the text. Next, open the page up and write character traits and words to describe the character's emotions on the inside. These are things you have to infer about the character's traits based on the evidence from the text. It's pretty fun and these make a great display!
Hey bloggy friends! Long time, no see! Let me tell you, getting into the groove of this year has been C-R-A-Z-Y! After 3 weeks of gatheri...
Are you looking for a fun way to teach describing characters and character traits? Try this! Fold each side of a horizontal sheet of paper to the middle. Have the kids draw a picture of the character on the front. Put words to describe the outward appearance of the character on the outside. This can be things that are obvious from the text. Next, open the page up and write character traits and words to describe the character's emotions on the inside. These are things you have to infer about the character's traits based on the evidence from the text. It's pretty fun and these make a great display!
This graphic organizer will help students identify and describe character traits within a text. The Character Traits Wheel helps students explain traits based on what a character looks like, how they act, what they say, and how they feel.Also included is a character analysis writing activity. Studen...
Hi all! The big day is Tuesday! That's my first day back with my little sweeties. I'm getting excited and nervous. Yeah, can you believe after all these years of teaching I still get excited and nervous! I'm starting again this year with 30 firsties and I'm sure it will increase. I guess I should be used to it but I don't think I ever will. I thought I'd share with everyone some little tools I print to have on hand when I'm working in guided reading with my kiddos. I print several copies and have a stack of each of these by my reading table so I can quickly grab some for my lessons. Let me start by telling you that I tell my firsties they are 'smart readers under construction'. We talk about what that means and I tell them I am going to help them in every way become a smart reader. I love the word 'smart' more than 'better'. It seems more positive to me. When I think of 'better', I think well maybe I'm not very good to start with and I want my kiddos the think of themselves as good reader and I'm just going to help them be smarter reader. The first is sorting pages. I have 2, 3, 4, and 5 way sort pages. I use these a ton of ways. I might have them list short vowel words, long & short vowels, word families, inflectional endings, root word and ending, suffixes, prefixes, characters and describing words, who & what, hard & soft c or g words, the list can go on and on. Sometimes I give the words, sometimes they find the words in their reading. You can use it with the low, middle and high kids. It's open to whatever you can think of to use it with. It's a fun, quick easy practice or assessment for your kiddos. I don't make them into a booklet because I want the kids to take them home so parents can see what we are doing. The next one is the character sheet. I use this one a lot especially after I've taught describing words. I can generally use this one at the beginning of the year with my high students too. Another one I use is Did You Know. This one is great for non-fiction books. These sheets don't have to be used only in guided reading. Sometimes I'll use them with the whole class like when I read Boxcar Children. We fill out a 4-way sort on the four characters and what we know about them. There are so many possibilities, just use your creativity. If you'd like a FREE download just click HERE. Oh and some super GOOD NEWS- I have a new grandson!! This is Elijah Ray Robison. Born August 15th. He was 10 lbs. 5 ounces. My daughter has BIG boys! I just LOVE all the dark soft hair! Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a terrific week!
This guide gives you some tips on dropping hints of romance without explicitly stating it, or having your characters shout it from the rooftops.
This PDF crochet pattern describes in US terminology, how to crochet a classic retro Beetle tissue holder, like the one in the pictures. Finished size will be approx. 10,6” (27 cm) long, 4,3” (11 cm) tall, 4,7” (12 cm) wide, crocheted using acrylic yarn (8 ply / DK), with hook size E (3.5 mm). The Beetle in the pictures was made using Stylecraft Special DK. This pattern is also suitable for wool or cotton yarn. The Beetle has an opening-flap at the bottom, to insert/refill the package of tissues. Note: only the package of tissues, without the box, go inside the Beetle. Parts of this tissue holder are worked in continuous rounds, as well as in rows. Skill level: intermediate (for crocheting, as well as for pinning / sewing parts together) Approx. Gauge: for continuous rounds: 5 sc = 1”(2,50 cm) 5 rounds = 0,8” (2 cm) for rows: 5 sc = 0,8” (2 cm), 5 rows = 0,8” (2 cm) Materials used: Crochet hook size E (3.5 mm) Yarn in green (approx. 120 gr, 350 m / 390 yds), grey, white (both approx. 25 gr, 66 m / 73 yds), black (approx. 40 gr, 120 m, 130 yds), small amounts of red, orange. Fiberfill stuffing, preferably a sturdy kind, 2 mother of pearl buttons, diameter approx. 0,7” (1,7 cm), 2 red buttons diameter approx. 0,6” (1,5 cm), 1 sewing snap button, diameter approx. 0,5” (1,4 cm) 2 Chenille wires or pipe cleaners, approx. 6” (15 cm) long 1 Piece of soft / flexible plastic canvas, approx. 5,5” x 9,5” (14 x 24 cm) The content of 1 square tissue box (I used a Kleenex, size: 4,3” x 4” x 4,72” - 11 x 10 x 12 cm (l x w x h)) Stitch marker, tapestry needle, pins, optional: white and black sewing thread Stitches used: chain, slip stitch, single crochet, double crochet, increasing, decreasing, bobble stitch (instruction included), surface slip stitches This crochet pattern is an original ©Millionbells design, described in english, using US terminology. If you like this design, click HERE, for more Millionbells crochet patterns ! English version (US terminology) of the pattern (PDF) is available as instant download after received payment. Dutch: Nederlandstalig patroon staat op PDF en is direct te downloaden na ontvangen betaling. Français: Modèle de langue Français est sur PDF et est immédiatement téléchargeable après paiement reçu. Deutsch: PDF Häkelanleitung auf Deutsch sofort nach dem Kauf herunterzuladen.
Some ways to portray that regret as well as the potential apology/confrontation that may follow
Queste istruzioni passo passo per lavorare all'uncinetto il personaggio dei cartoni animati di Woodman of Hilda. La descrizione del giocattolo all'uncinetto è realizzata in file PDF, ha 18 pagine, 2,3 MB. Scritto in inglese. Le istruzioni descrivono in dettaglio gli strumenti utilizzati per il filato. C'è una descrizione testuale e foto del processo di creazione. Contiene 43 fotografie. Per realizzare un giocattolo avrai bisogno di filo e di un uncinetto. Dimensioni del boscaiolo: altezza con un ramo - 23,5 cm (9 1/4 ") O un altro filato con una composizione simile. La dimensione del giocattolo dipende dalla dimensione dell'uncinetto, dallo spessore del filo e dalla densità dell'uncinetto. Se non sai lavorare all'uncinetto, puoi acquistare un giocattolo già pronto qui: https://www.etsy.com/listing/975230633/crochet-woodman-toy-hilda-netflix?ref=shop_home_recs_1 Questo può essere un regalo per la ricamatrice. Puoi anche realizzare un giocattolo da regalare utilizzando questo modello. Given work non è un tutorial e non contiene lezioni sull'uncinetto. Queste sono una descrizione e foto del processo di creazione del giocattolo. La descrizione è pensata per chi sa lavorare all'uncinetto. Non è difficile ma dovresti avere una certa esperienza. Dato che il lavoro è destinato esclusivamente per uso personale, la rivendita, la distribuzione e la pubblicazione di un determinato lavoro su Internet e la stampa sono vietate. Ti preghiamo di fare riferimento all'autore e alla descrizione quando pubblichi il tuo giocattolo su Internet o altrove. Grazie per la vostra comprensione! Ti auguro ogni successo nella tua creatività! Se avete qualche domanda, per favore contattatemi. Grazie ;)
Writing a character's physical appearance can be challenging to do naturally, especially in a first person POV. These tips help you to describe your characters' looks in a way that naturally integrates with your writing.
How do writers create characters readers love to hate? How can you create your own Dolores Umbridge or Ramsey Bolton?
This week in Reader's Workshop, we are continuing our study of characterization. We want to understand how characters think, feel and change during a story. This will help us understand what we read. Below are a few examples of what we are working on during class! Our goal is to understand what a character looks like on the inside and the outside. Before writing about characters in a book, we wrote about ourselves! Reader's Workshop focus wall! We studied many characters in our favorite stories, including Molly Lou Melon, and Camilla Cream from "A Bad Case of Stripes". We focused on what the characters looked like on the inside and the outside. Today, our focus was about how characters change in a story. We read about "Lilly" from "Julius, The Baby of the World" by Kevin Henkes The students filled out a response sheet about how their characters changed during the course of their reading.
Just earlier this month, I brought you an amazing sans & serif font duo and you loved it. This time, I am upgrading the game and I am launching a mix of modern & classic, a brand new sans & script font duo French Lovers. And even though it's a font duo, you will receive 3 fonts, but with all the alternate options described below you will basically have 18 different font versions. I say it’s a font duo because it contains 2 different types of letters, a classic serif and a creative calligraphy script. However, I have included regular, bold, light, regular italic, bold italic, light italic, regular outline, bold outline, light outline, regular outline italic, bold outline italic & light outline italic sans, as well as regular, bold, light calligraphy script and regular, bold and light monoline script, so you will actually get 18 styles with this font family. All sans letters are available as uppercase letters and uppercase alternates, and script is available as lowercase letters & lowercase alternates. It also includes full language support, punctuation, numerals and detailed instructions how to use alternate letters most of the apps on your computer, as well as in Canva. I invite you to check out the preview images, and I hope you will be immersed in my vision for this creative typeface that, I am sure, will work for all kinds of interesting projects you might be working on this year. If you end up publishing your designs on Instagram, tag me - @silverstagco and I will make sure to showcase your design and work to my audience as well! French Lovers - Sans & Script Duo Includes: FRENCHLOVERS.otf - Regular version of the font with 4 different options for uppercase letters & 2 options for lowercase letters. FRENCHLOVERS-Light.otf - Light version of the font with 4 different options for uppercase letters & 2 options for lowercase letters. FRENCHLOVERS-Bold.otf - Bold version of the font with 4 different options for uppercase letters & 2 options for lowercase letters. French Lovers - Sans & Script Duo comes with 18 different letter options regular, bold, light, regular italic, bold italic, light italic, regular outline, bold outline, light outline, regular outline italic, bold outline italic & light outline italic sans, as well as regular, bold, light calligraphy script and regular, bold and light monoline script All sans letters are available as uppercase letters and uppercase alternates, and script is available as lowercase letters & lowercase alternates. Numerals & Punctuation Language Support For Each Option - Regular, Italic, Bold & Bold Italic Web Font Kit is included as well Detailed instructions on how to use alternates in most of the apps on your computer and in Canva Happy creating everyone!
If you want to send your readers into a 3AM reading frenzy, these ideas could help!
Sometimes dialogue sounds stiff, clunky, or unnatural. Try these tricks to make your dialogue sound more natural and less written.
Vocabulary and speaking practice about free time activities, hobbies, likes and dislikes. Multi-purpose activity. More here: https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/my-creations?search_key=hobbies&type=printables&option=published&id=620769&grammar=&vocabulary=&materials=&levels=&studentTypes=&skills=&languageExams=&dialect=&functions=&page=1&sorting_type=most_newest&filter_type=filter_all&view_type=list&view_length=12 - ESL worksheets
This Doodle Pack is focused on Characters! Reading comprehension and visualizing with a character twist! Each page contains a short, silly passage describing a character. The mission is to draw what they picture in their brains while they read the passage. This pack is great for practicing mental im...
Stop looking for love in Alderaan places! Add a little out-of-this-world style to your wardrobe with this epic Boys' Star Wars Tee just in time for Valentine's Day! This cute design features Obi-Wan Kenobi inside a big pink heart with the words "You're the Obi-Wan for Me," perfect for the valentine in your life who loves all things Star Wars!
A few tricks to stop your character from getting annoying.
Your story is always stronger when your character wants something. This is what propels them to make the decisions they make. If you're struggling to find a good motivation for your character, I've compiled 50 ideas you can use... If you want to learn how to use the character's backstory to formulate a motivation, we c
This is a list of names that mean forest or other related words.
I feel like I've been a terrible blogger this month. In the midst of all the regular holiday preparations, illness swept its way through our house ... twice. First it was the good old cold, then stomach flu hit. Yuck. I would rather clean up ANY mess than stomach flu mess. Not good times. And then I had all these fun Christmas activities planned for my last week of school, but they were thwarted as well. The Wednesday before break all the teachers in my school board were on strike (we've been on rotating one day strikes in Ontario) and then a HUGE winter storm hit on Thursday and all our school buses were cancelled on Thursday and Friday (buses get cancelled, but our schools are always open ... thank goodness for snow tires).. Since the large majority of our students are bused to school, we had very few students the last two days. On Friday I only had FOUR students. So ... plans changed. So, this long preamble is my way of saying when I saw Christina Bainbridge's linky for the Best and Brightest of 2012, I thought it was the perfect way to get my blog on. ;) Here goes ... Best Discovery of 2012 Hands down, it would have to be Pinterest. Thanks to Pinterest, I have found so many GREAT ideas made by so many GREAT bloggers. I have found new bloggers to follow, and often see their ideas on Pinterest before their posts even hit my inbox. Being such a visual person, I am IN.LOVE with pinterest. I've used recipes for special picnics with my family, made the cutest crafts with my girls, and found the best ideas for my classroom. I am constantly in awe of the creativity of people out there. IN.LOVE Best Freebie I've Shared I think I'm most proud of my two assessment freebies I've shared - Glow and Grow and Traffic Light Comprehension Dots. Both are for quick self or peer assessments. I use both methods all the time in my class, and students often complete them before I even ask. I tend to use the traffic light dots most often in math, and the glow and grow for writing and reader responses. I uploaded the pdf documents to Vistaprint this summer and had posters made that hang in my classroom. You can read about my blog post explaining how I use the assessments HERE (the post includes links for the free posters). Most Viewed Blog Post My most viewed blog post of 2012 is my post on my Paper Bag Character projects. You can read about it HERE. This is the second year I've done this project, and it has been a BIG hit with my students (and a big HIT with me as I've been so happy with the quality of work they produced). Best Art Project I love sneaking in art projects whenever I can in the classroom - and because visual arts is one of the subjects I have to assess on our report cards, I can sneak it into our curriculum without any guilt. I love sharing our art projects on my Friday Art Feature posts - I have so many fantastic little artists in my class I feel their work deserves a little recognition. This is a hard one to choose, but I think my favourite art project was our Mingling with Monet project. This was one of our last art projects of the year last year, and the kids were SO proud of their masterpieces! Best Product and Best Addition to my Classroom This would have to be my Interactive Math Journal - it's my best-selling product, the project I'm most proud of, and hands-down the best addition to my classroom. When I say I worked hard on it all summer, that's a lie. It was really a work in progress for the whole year. I started interactive math journals in my classroom in September of 2011 and never looked back. I couldn't believe how excited my students were to work in their math journals ... and that excitement hasn't subsided - for me or the students. They are excited to show other students their work and ask to bring the journals home to share with their parents. Who can ask for more than that?? I've been so overwhelmed by the response I've gotten from teachers all over the world, and I'd like to take the chance to sincerely thank every one of you who has left me feedback or commented on how they use math journals in the classroom. It is mind-boggling to me to think that students all over the world are using these ideas. I love sharing these ideas on my Math Journal Sunday posts, and promise to be back in January with a whole new set of ideas. Best Bloggy Friends Forever I saved the best for last. The best thing about my year of blogging in 2012 has been the friends I've made. What went from "I saw this neat idea on someone's blog ..." back at the beginning of the year, has now become, "My friend, _____________, posted about the coolest thing ...". These people have truly become my friends. My students have benefitted from them. I have learned from them. And I am a better teacher because of them. Over a year ago, I would never have thought the people behind the blogs I read would become true friends. But they have. MANY of them. And it's the absolute COOLEST thing! Some of my favourites from my grade levels are: Stephanie from Teaching in Room 6. LOVE this girl. Truly. Maybe even to the whole stalking point ... ;) There isn't a single thing that Stephanie has done that I haven't LOVED. Nope, not one. Mor from A Teacher's Treasure. LOVE this girl. She's my favourite foldable friend ... I wish I could fold her right up and stick her in my pocket. (I hope that didn't sound too weird). Mor is going to have an incredible year in 2013 and I am so happy for her. Kim from Finding Joy in 6th Grade. LOVE this girl. Kim never fails to leave the sweetest comments on all blogs. She just has this special way of making you feel ... special. I wish I was one of her students ... I know without a doubt she has the ability to make each and every one of them feel special. Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files. LOVE this girl. The first time Kristen left a comment on my blog I just about FELL OVER! I had been following her in AWE for quite a while as one of my bloggy gods. I wish I had an ounce of her creativity and passion for design. Kristine from Young Teacher Love. LOVE this girl. I just "found" her late this summer. I love all the ideas and pictures she shares from her classroom. Elizabeth from Fun in Room 4B. LOVE this girl. And LOVE all the fun ideas she shares from her classroom. Her students must be SO excited to come to school every day. I can only hope I can inspire my students like she does. Oh my goodness, I could go on and on. I have SO many favourites. I'm from such a small school, I'm pretty much the only teacher in my whole junior division. I dream of being at a larger school where these FABULOUS ladies would be part of my "team". OMG - what a team we would make!!! So, that's about that. I love this end of the year reflection - I make my own students reflect so much, it's only fitting I take it on, too. If you made it all the way to the end of this very verbose post, what were some of your BEST ideas of 2012??? Jen
For if you're sick of elemental powers or 'shadow magic'
