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Understanding Character Traits in Stories

The document discusses character traits, emphasizing how a character's words and actions help readers understand their personalities. It provides examples of traits such as friendly, selfish, and responsible, along with corresponding quotes and actions. Additionally, it encourages readers to apply their understanding of traits to analyze characters in a story.

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Understanding Character Traits in Stories

The document discusses character traits, emphasizing how a character's words and actions help readers understand their personalities. It provides examples of traits such as friendly, selfish, and responsible, along with corresponding quotes and actions. Additionally, it encourages readers to apply their understanding of traits to analyze characters in a story.

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Character Traits

Says/Does
Reading Analysis
Know
• Traits are words that describe you, me and
characters in a story.

• What a character says or does help us, the


reader, decide what to think about ourselves
and others.
Do you Understand?
Read what a character says and does in a story to locate their character traits.
Traits are words that describe:
Friendly, sad, selfish, funny, greedy, responsible, caring, happy, sympathetic
Examples:

Says Does
“I will fix your lamp. After all, I • Sara helped Jan up after she fell
broke it.” This person is running to the line. Sara is kind.
trustworthy. • Joel went to the store and
“Tomorrow is going to be the best bought Carl another basketball.
day ever!” This person is Joel is responsible.
happy. • Nick pushed Lorn back and
“I want you to play with me at shouted. Nick is angry.
recess not Sara!” This person is • Amir called Emily and asked her
selfish. to the movies. Amir is friendly.
“ No! It’s mine and you can’t have • Trey gave Sal his goggles
any!” This person is greedy. because his eyes were burning.
“I’m sorry your goldfish died.” This Trey is giving.
person is sympathetic.
Apply Your Character Trait Skills
Traits Says and Does:
Use these traits to help you While waiting for the bell to ring, Linda heard her friend
Naome crying. “What’s wrong?” Linda asked Naome. GJ
describe the persons in the story took my snack. “I’m sorry, you can have some of mine.”
on the right. I said. When Naome walked into class she was crying.
The teacher asked Naome what’s wrong. Naome told
• Selfish the teacher what GJ did. As we were putting our
backpacks away I saw GJ put the chips in Naome’s desk.
• Caring The teacher called GJ to talk. When she asked him what
• Friendly happened, he denied taking Naome’s snack. I walked
over to the teacher and told her what I saw. GJ was
• Greedy caught and punished for steeling Naome’s snack.
• Responsible Naome shared her snack with me that day.

• Disrespectful
What traits describe Linda? Naome? GJ?
• Sneaky When Linda said “What’s wrong?” she was…
• Giving When Naome shared her snack with Linda she was …
When GJ took Naome’s snack, he was…
• Can you think of more?

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