RL.3.3 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
:"Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events."
These worksheets, workbooks, and lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Worksheets
Language Frames: Character Changes
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Language Frames: Character Changes
Use this simple template to identify a character's feelings, challenges, and resolution throughout a text.
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
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Graphic Organizer: Cause & Effect
Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.
3rd Grade
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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects
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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects
Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.
3rd Grade
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Glossary: Describe Character Actions in Order
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Glossary: Describe Character Actions in Order
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.
3rd Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Describe Character Actions in Order
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Vocabulary Cards: Describe Character Actions in Order
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.
3rd Grade
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Looking at Character Actions
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Looking at Character Actions
Use this resource to teach your students to pick out character actions from the text as they answer questions.
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Lesson Plans
Character Traits
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Character Traits
What makes a character special? Their traits, of course. With help from The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg, students will enjoy completing character maps and learning about different character traits.
3rd Grade
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Picture Puzzlers
Lesson plan
Picture Puzzlers
Make your students into storytellers with this lesson where they will learn how to make complete stories of their own.
3rd Grade
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Keeping Good Character
Lesson plan
Keeping Good Character
This reading and writing lesson also helps students develop empathy. After paying attention to the main character's responses in Victoria and Elizabeth Kann's Purplelicious, students will relate her experiences to their own.
3rd Grade
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Identifying Character Traits
Lesson plan
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
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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
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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
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Workbooks
A Christmas Carol For Young Readers
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A Christmas Carol For Young Readers
Reading without the bah-humbugs: take a look at "A Christmas Carol" with story pages young readers can bring to life with color, and step-by-step analysis pages to get them thinking.
3rd Grade
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My Vacation
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My Vacation
In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.
3rd Grade
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Games
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Exercises
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