Character 2nd Grade Unit

Lessons & Units

Character 2nd Grade Unit

Lessons

Lesson 1: Personality Traits Describe a character’s personality based on his/her actions, thoughts, and feelings.

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Lesson 2: Predicting Actions Predict a character’s actions based on his/her personality.

Julius, the Baby of the World

Lilly's Big Day

Lesson 3: Describing Characters with Rich Language Use descriptive language to describe a character’s personality.

Julius, the Baby of the World

Lilly's Big Day

Unit Extension Ideas

Predict the actions of characters in another fiction book and chart the predictions. As you read the book, have students discuss if their predictions about the characters were correct or incorrect.

For struggling readers, use a picture walk to make predictions about the character’s personality and actions.

Students can also make predictions about characters that are featured in a series of books. Examples include the Curious George series by H.A. Rey, the Arthur series by Marc Brown, and the Julian series by Ann Cameron. Read aloud several books in a series. Students can make predictions about the character’s actions based on what they know about his or her personality.

As you read a book aloud, stop periodically to have students record descriptive words about the characters. After reading the book, have students work with a partner to improve their list of words to make them more interesting.

Students can describe the main character’s personality in a book they are reading, incorporating some of the descriptive words from their list.

Have students write a description of a main character, including the character’s actions, feelings, thoughts, and personality. Then have the students exchange their descriptions and write a story using another student’s description.

Students can start a list of descriptive words and keep it in their journal or writing folder as a reference for writing.

Teacher and Student Materials Get All

Classroom Display

More Books for Teaching Character

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Fountas and Pinnell: L
Lexile: 340L

Amazing Grace

Fountas and Pinnell: L
Lexile: 680L

Nate the Great

Fountas and Pinnell: K
Lexile: 130L

Fox and His Friends

Fountas and Pinnell: J
Lexile: 200L

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Fountas and Pinnell: J
Lexile: 510L

Diary of a Worm

Lexile: 360L

Frog and Toad are Friends

Fountas and Pinnell: K
Lexile: 400L

Write the chapter title and the main idea of each chapter on sentence strips. After reading the book, have students use the sentence strips to match the chapter title to the main idea of the chapter.