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Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts.

Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

My Story's Characters

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.

Characters and Dialogue

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Dialogue.

Vocabulary Cards: Characters and Dialogue

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

Crafting Characters

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Story Brainstorm: Big Events

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Thinking About Characters: Literary Response

Strong narratives have clear sequences of events. Through this lesson, students plan out what will happen in their story before they start writing their own engaging narratives. 

Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

Students practice sequencing story events with this worksheet. Cut out the sentences into strips and then build your story by arranging them in the best order.

Cut and Paste: Sequencing Story Events

Your students have been working hard on their narrative writing skills! Use this writing assessment to evaluate their abilities to develop and describe characters in their narrative writing texts.

Narrative Writing: Describe Characters

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Re-imagining Dialogue with Guest Characters

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Vocabulary Cards: Who are the Key Characters?

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How to Write Dialogue Between Characters

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.

Characters Change Just Like We Do

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the&nbsp;characters, themes, and events from&nbsp;<em>The One and Only Ivan.</em>

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Post-Reading Writing Prompts

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Step Inside the Story!

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

Compare and Contrast: Rural and Urban

Use this fun journal page to help your students practice sequencing events.

Kindergarten Writing Journal: My Day

After reading Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel <em>Esperanza Rising</em>, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Esperanza’s Homes

Help your child stretch her imagination to come up with a story starring a cast of underwater characters.

Under the Sea Story Starter

Brighten your writing by learning how to build and describe great characters!

Character Development

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Let’s Investigate!

Help your child get started on his storytelling skills with this worksheet about characters!

Characterization

Your cartoon-crazed creative kid gets to decide what the cool cartoon characters say.

Make a Comic Strip

This spooky writing activity will introduce your kid to list-writing: a great way to practice sentences and sequential events.

Witch Writing

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

Making Connections in Reading

Looking for a worksheet to help your child with patterns? This printable worksheet will give him practice with creating a logical sequence of events.

Draw a Sequence Story

Your young writer can practice his storytelling skills with this character development worksheet, where he'll outline 4 fictional characters.

Outline a Fictional Character

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