Learning about Character Traits

During the month of January we have been learning about character traits. There are so many ideas out there that can be linked with teaching adjectives. After introducing character traits and talking about how as readers we pay attention to what the characters think, do and say we did several activities to reinforce our understanding about character traits. We made a chart of character traits of people we know and the evidence (think, do and or say) we used to determine that character trait. I can't remember where I got the idea from, but the students put together a nice craft activity where they made a list of their character traits and wrote a short paragraph about themselves. In addition to this, we took advantage of the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday and the students also practice identifying MLK Jr.'s character traits. Here are some pictures of some student's final products.