English Unit: Inferring Character Traits
This wonderful unit focused on Inferring Character Traits is the perfect unit to introduce your students to how they can begin inferring character traits in stories through their actions, words, thoughts, and feelings. It incorporates a number of hands on activities for students to begin delving into characters and their development.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to respond to stories and share our feelings and thoughts about events and characters.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to make meaning.
- We are learning to respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators.
- We are learning to share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLE02
9
Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
AC9EFLY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ACELT1577
8.4
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
ACELT1783
8.4
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
ACELY1650
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ENe-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
ENE-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
ENE-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.