Many students lack the vocabulary necessary to be able to adequately describe characters, but look no further than this resource to help you remedy that right away!

With this set of 48 character traits, definitions, and accompanying graphic organizers and sorting activities, you can provide your students with the scaffolding they need to be successful and increase the quality of their vocabulary. Use the poster version to create a bulletin board/classroom display, for a "word a week" program, and/or as supports in lessons focused on describing characters and emotions. With the student-sized definition cards and the 9 suggested activities and graphic organizers, you'll find plenty to incorporate into literacy stations or reader's workshop. The student sized definitions are perfect for putting on a ring or in an envelope for personal student reference tools to help them internalize new words to increase their vocabulary.

This resources was updated with new emoji clip art and Google Slides versions in 2022!

Included in Character Traits Vocabulary and Graphic Organizers:

✔ Full-Sized Character Traits and definitions with a related image (print + Google Slides)

✔ Student-sized definition cards with 6 traits per page

✔ Ideas of ways to utilize this resource in your classroom

✔ Vocabulary and reading activities (print + Google Slides):

-A Word a Week graphic organizers (2 versions)

-Word Knowledge Sort

-Positive/Negative Trait Sort

-Antonyms worksheet

-Synonyms worksheet

-Applying Character Traits to a Book (Sort and Worksheet)

-Character Change graphic organizer

-My Personality Traits worksheet

-Mystery Classmate activity

This resource is also available in an Emoji theme that contains the same vocabulary words.

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Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher

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