Exploring characters

Today was Read for a Better Life at TCI.  We had a lot of great activities for the students including a reading pep rally and some special visitors to our classrooms.  The characters from the "If You Give A..." series were in the Braveheart hallway.  You may recognize them....

In class we read the book Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon.  It's a story of a young girl that is very different from everyone else and her struggle to fit in.   To start our unit on character traits we discussed what character traits are and where they come from.  Next, we drew a picture of Molly Lou in our notebooks (the students pictures were all way better than mine!).  Then we talked about the different between physical traits and personality traits.  We discussed why an author would include both descriptions in a text and how these descriptions help us as readers visualize our reading and our overall comprehension.  Here are a few things we thought of today.

Tomorrow we will be discussing inferences and how we can infer additional information about characters that can help us increase our comprehension.   I can't wait to do some more real reading and of course real thinking!