3rd grade Characters, Setting and Events in Fiction Texts Lesson Plans

Identifying Character Traits

What's your "it"? This lesson incorporates Tony Dungy's You Can Do It! into some hands-on activities that help students learn about different character traits.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Sequencing the Order of Events

Lesson plan

Sequencing the Order of Events

The sequence of events help readers recount the most important parts of the story in order. Use this lesson with your students to read fables and a classic picture book as you practice recounting the sequence of events.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Close Reading Strategy

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Close Reading Strategy

This lesson teaches your students to pay attention to small words, such as adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, to make a big difference in reading comprehension! Use as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for *Close Reading: Introduction*.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Characters Change Just Like We Do

Lesson plan

Characters Change Just Like We Do

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

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It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Fairy Tales: Character Traits

Lesson plan

Fairy Tales: Character Traits

In this literary lesson, students use fairy tales to practice identifying character traits. Students are challenged to justify their reasoning using text based support.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Choosing Character Traits

Lesson plan

Choosing Character Traits

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn character traits and find them in a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Identifying Character Traits lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

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Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales

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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales

Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "Circle of Viewpoints" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Character Traits in Fairy Tales

Lesson plan

Character Traits in Fairy Tales

As your learners identify physical and internal character traits, make sure they provide evidence. Use this as a stand alone lesson, or as a pre-lesson for the Fairy Tales: Character Traits lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Tea Time

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Tea Time

Students will love talking about what they've been reading when the story comes to life. This tea time activity nourishes students' confidence in addition to improving their reading comprehension skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Character Cards

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Character Cards

Real people and characters in stories show who they are by their words and actions. Help students make the connection between a character trait and the words or actions that support it by using Character Cards.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Reader's Theater: Read the Script

Lesson plan

Reader's Theater: Read the Script

Did you know that Reader's Theater promotes fluency and builds students' reading confidence? Use this lesson to inspire your students to practice reading and understanding text in the drama genre.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Focus on the Differences

Lesson plan

Focus on the Differences

Use this lesson with your students to teach them to describe the differences between stories with contrasting conjunctions. This lesson can stand-alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Finding Similarities and Differences* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Pumpkin Creatures

Lesson plan

Pumpkin Creatures

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin. Your students will enjoy writing a story about a character that they have created!

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Pick Out the Parts of a Story

Lesson plan

Pick Out the Parts of a Story

Use this lesson to teach your students to identify story elements and compare them to another text's story elements. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Comparing Texts by the Same Author* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Verbs that Show Character Action

Lesson plan

Verbs that Show Character Action

Use this lesson to teach your students how to identify character actions with verbs. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Look for the Clues* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Characters and Dialogue

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Characters and Dialogue

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Describe Character Actions in Order

Lesson plan

Describe Character Actions in Order

Use this lesson to teach your students to describe the characters' actions using the basic sentence structure of subject + verb + object. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *How Do You Solve a Problem?* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Bun Bun Button Character Traits

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Bun Bun Button Character Traits

In this lesson, you will read the heartwarming story of Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco to your class. Students will then use their own reading skills to describe the two main characters in the story.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Story Structure Rollercoaster

Lesson plan

Story Structure Rollercoaster

Reading can be a rollercoaster with its ups and downs! Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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3rd grade Characters, Setting and Events in Fiction Texts Lesson Plans

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