Understand character traits and the role they play within a story. Understand a character is a large part of understanding what you're reading.

1. When you read a story, think of the char
Friendly
CHEAP
EVIL
Unintelligent
Whiny
Silly

2. - What does the character say and do?
- What does the character think and feel?
- How does the character look?
- What do the other characters think abo
- How does the character make you feel?

3. What does the
character say and do?
What does the
character think and
feel?
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character look?
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

4. Once upon a time, in a small
village in Russia there lived a
woman called Barbara. Barbara
was very proud of her house. She
had the tidiest house in the village
and the most beautiful garden. She
was always cooking and cleaning,
scrubbing and sweeping, polishing
and painting.

5. All the villagers were out in the
square talking about a bright new
star that had just appeared in the
sky. Everyone was very excited
about the star because it brought
great news. But Barbara didn’t
even notice the dazzling star – she
was far too busy cleaning her
house.

6. What does the
character say and do?
What does the
character think and
feel?
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character look?
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

7. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the
character think and
feel?
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character look?
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

8. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
How does the
character look?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

9. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character look?
She looks very neat
and clean.
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

10. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about the
character?
She had the tidiest house
and the most beautiful
garden.
How does the
character look?
She looks very neat
and clean.
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

11. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about the
character?
She had the tidiest house
and the most beautiful
garden.
How does the
character look?
She looks very neat
and clean.
How does the
character make you
feel?
I like her. She seems
like a nice lady.
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

12. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about the
character?
She had the tidiest house
and the most beautiful
garden.
How does the
character look?
She looks very neat
and clean.
How does the character
make you feel?
I like her. She seems like a
nice lady.
Name a character trait: Clean
If possible, name another character trait: __________

13. What does the character
say and do?
She was always cleaning.
She doesn’t notice the
dazzling star.
What does the character
think and feel?
She is very proud of her
house.
What do the other
characters think about the
character?
She had the tidiest house
and the most beautiful
garden.
How does the
character look?
She looks very neat
and clean.
How does the character
make you feel?
I like her. She seems like a
nice lady.
Name a character trait: Clean
If possible, name another character trait: Hard-work

14. - Character traits are descriptive adjecti
- We can describe characters using
character traits that tell us specific
qualities ofmay character. character
the tell us the
- An author
traits directly, but more often the
author will show us these traits by
what the character does.

15. A long time ago, Nyame the god of the sky
gave Ananzi a huge pot which held all the
wisdom of the world. Nyame told Ananzi to
share the wisdom with everyone he met.
The pot was filled with wonderful pictures,
stories, music and many more exciting ideas.
Whenever Ananzi looked in the pot he
learned something new.
Ananzi didn’t want to share the wisdom. “I
will keep it for myself!” he thought.
So Ananzi decided to hide the pot of wisdom

16. He tied a rope around the pot and then tied
it around his waist. But the pot was too
heavy and kept getting in Ananzi’s way.
Ananzi’s son watched him climb the tree. “Tie
the pot to your back”, he shouted, “It will
make it easier to climb.”
So Ananzi tied the pot to his back and very
soon he was at the top of the tree. But when
he got to the top he was very angry. “My son
knows more than I do and I have the pot of
wisdom,” he cried.
Ananzi was so angry that he threw the pot

17. What does the
character say and do?
What does the
character think and
feel?
What do the other
characters think about
the character?
How does the
character look?
How does the
character make you
feel?
Name a character trait: ___________________________
If possible, name another character trait: __________

19. - Help us understand why characters
speak and act the way they do.
-Help us understand what the
characters think or why they have
certain beliefs.
- Help us understand a character’s
relationship with other characters.
- Help us predict what characters
might do next.

20. - Why does Ananzi want to hide the pot
of knowledge?
- How does Ananzi feel about his son?
- What kind of relationship will Ananzi
have with the people who now have
bits of theme (lesson) could Ananzi
- What knowledge?
learn from the events in the story?

21. - Character traits are descriptive
adjectives.
- We can describe characters using
traits that tell us the specific
qualities of the character.
- An author may tell us the character
traits directly, but more often the
author will show us these traits by
what the character does.

22. - What does the character say and do?
- What does the character think and
feel? does the character look?
- How
- What do the other characters think
about does the character make you
- How the character?
feel?