Explore personality adjectives, from positive to negative, with the top list, examples, and pictures. Learn to describe characters effectively in English.
Free Printable Good Character Traits List. Free Printable Good Character Traits List that you can use to teach your students about Good Character Traits at school. The Good Character Traits List includes the 210 Good Character Traits organized in alphabetical order. Print all Good Character Traits List that you need to hand out to your children at home or students
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Ready to help your students move beyond "nice" and "mean" when describing characters? Here are 6 ways to build their character traits vocabulary!
Explore personality adjectives, from positive to negative, with the top list, examples, and pictures. Learn to describe characters effectively in English.
Grades 1-5 are all in the midst of a character unit in Reading Workshop. This week, I thought I might focus a bit on what a character trait is. According to Yourdictionary.com, character traits are "all the aspects of a person’s behavior and attitudes that make up that person’s personality. Everyone has character traits, both good and bad. Even characters in books have character traits. Character traits are often shown with descriptive adjectives, like patient, unfaithful, or jealous." They have a nice post that analyzes them a bit. http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/character-trait-examples.html If you think about character traits and feelings like the weather in Chicago, it can be a helpful metaphor. Around here, the day can start sunny, turn into a cloudy, rainy day, and then end with snow. Those are all examples of a character's feelings. They change like the wind (quite literally, in this metaphor). Character traits are more like the climate. The general type of weather we have in the winter last for a long time. That is more like a character trait. Traits don't change nearly as often as feelings, just like climate doesn't change as often as the weather. This teacher does a nice job explaining how she teaches character traits, with the common core in mind, in third grade. I especially like the scaffolding she does with her kids. She has them start with just finding examples of a single trait in their reading. Then, she moves on to finding support in the text to show the trait using her read alouds first, before releasing it to the kids independently. They even think about their own traits in the process! This is hard work. Giving the kids scaffolded release will really help them become more independent. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/11/teaching-character-traits-readers-workshop Here is a pinterest board on both character traits and feelings. Really, they are both lessons on inferring. Inferring feelings AND character traits are important. It is just helpful for the kids to know the difference. There are some good ideas to help with this on the board. http://www.pinterest.com/julia_burrows/character-traits-and-feelings/ Have fun exploring character in your classroom! It will really boost the level of the conversations you have with the kids when they take the time to really understand character traits.
The Dot Having a positive self esteem is such an important thing for our students in their daily living. It helps them in so many different ways... setting/achieving goals, having confidence, feeling worthy, etc. Students of all ages need to feel loved and important. They also need to understand that their unique qualities is what makes them special. This lesson was designed to encourage students by lifting them up with words of encouragement and positive feedback from their classmates I started the lesson off by showing my students The Dot Video. Discussion: We discussed how Vashti was inspired by her teacher and how she used that inspiration and confidence to make other paintings and creations. One of the things we discussed was "What might have happened if Vashti's teacher had not framed and posted her picture?" We talked about the importance of lifting each other up and encouraging each other with our words. Group Activity: Before the activity, I precut a heart in the center of a sheet of construction paper. We used the sheet to write down words that described how we LOVED (or things we thought was special) about one of the students I had chosen from the class. The student that was chosen for this activity always went back to their seat with a huge smile on his/her face and said that the positive things his/her classmates had to say made them happy. Class Activity: (Although I tweaked this lesson to make it my own, the original idea came from this link.) The class sat in a circle on the floor and each student received a sheet of paper with a DOT (or circle) cut out in the center. The students were instructed to write their name at the top of the paper and then pass it to the person on their right. The person that received the paper had to write one positive word that described their classmate. Once they completed this task, they waited on my instructions and when I told them to "pass it", they would pass it to the next person on their right until each child's paper had made it around the circle. Links for "The Dot": International Dot Day (Sign Up) Additional Dot Activities Life Lessons for Little Ones - Dot Unit
This would be the second part of my most downloaded worksheet: "Personality Adjectives". It provides other twenty-five adjectives related to personality or attitude. Key provided.Here you are the link for the first part: https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/personality_adjectives/adjectives-to-describe/73346Speaking practice on the topic here : https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/what_are_you_like_-_personal_traits/debate/97969 - ESL worksheets
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As we have entered the month of August, every teacher, whether she likes it or not, starts thinking about school. Some of us have dreams (or nightmares). Some of us go on a Pinterest spree. We walk through Target and ask ourselves "What do I 'need' from the dollar section?" You don't do this? Okay, maybe it's just me. Anyway, we are also thinking about what were some of our students' challenges last year, and how we will address them this year. My third and fourth graders had difficulty with vocabulary and making inferences, which was evident in how they would describe their characters: Nice Mean Sad Oh my. So late last school year, I developed this chart of character traits with the intention of helping students organize their thinking when selecting a character trait. Traits are arranged in alphabetical order in the following categories: nice/mean/sad, confident/nervous, and does a lot/does very little. The rest of the categories are partially alphabetical and having a corresponding opposite. This year I will be teaching second graders, so I'm thinking how I will adjust this chart to better suit their developmental abilities: Less words? Words that are more relevant to a second grade schema? Some pictures or graphics to support the vocabulary? Some food for my thought... Many teachers or parents who have downloaded this chart seemed very happy, and I'm happy that they're happy!! Update: Hello there, long time friend! If you found this resource useful for your students, please check out my Character Feelings blog post and TPT product!
Monster descriptive writing activities are a fantastic way to build descriptive language skills and vocabulary in students. Work on descriptive language techniques including: Adjectives Similes Character traits - inside and outside Using your senses to describe a monster Describing a monster's home This resource includes lots of practice activities, brainstorm pages and writing templates. There are also blank versions for students’ own monsters. ADJECTIVES, SIMILES AND CHARACTER TRAIT PAGES Students can use the templates to brainstorm adjectives, similes or character traits of their own monsters. They can also develop these skills on the practice monsters- 13 different monsters are included. USING SENSES TO DESCRIBE MONSTERS AND WHERE THEY LIVE Students can use these templates to brainstorm adjectives, similes or character traits of their own monsters. They can also develop these skills on the practice monsters- 13 different monsters are included. I am always amazed at the quality of writing that students produce when we do monster descriptions! If you want to write your own Monster Descriptions or complete whole-class activities, I recommend the following freebies: Monster Descriptions Writing Templates Monster Descriptive Writing Slides If you're wanting to say HELLO to: Feeling more organised and less stressed More time in your week Engaged and settled students An endless supply of evidence-based, engaging and quality resources at your fingertips Then The Hive is for you! Find out more here!
01) Aggressive 02) Ambitious 03) Amused 04) Brave 05) Bright 06) Cruel 07) Combative 08) Co-operative 09) Cowardly 10) Dangerous 11) Diligent 12) Determined 13) Disagreeable 14) Evil 15) Frank 16) …
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Adjectives are used to describe someone's character and personality.
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This is the foldable I used to teach character traits, feelings, and motivations. ...
Welcome to our lesson on common adjectives used to describe personality traits and emotions! In this lesson, we will explore a wide range of words that can be
