Character Traits

Character Traits

Review of Character Traits

To identify how a character’s actions help you identify a character trait, readers need to:

• identify what the character wants or needs (their motivation) and how the character feels. 

• identify the character’s actions that happen as a result of these needs and feelings (or the action they take after that detail).

• identify the character’s traits (words to describe what a character is like on the inside). 

Multiple Choice

Which scenario is an example of a determined character?

• "Bruno digs and digs. Bruno pulls and pulls but nothing he does helps open the entrance enough for him to get through. Bruno's paws now ache."

• "Bruno needed a warm, safe place to hibernate and he needed it now."

Multiple Choice

What character trait could you use to describe Jack the Squirrel?

• rude

• helpful

• scared

Multiple Choice

When we know what the character wants, we can pay attention to all of the words, thoughts, and actions the character does and says to help them get what they want or need. What does Bruno want/need?

• A Squirrel to be his friend.

• A safe place to hibernate.

Multiple Choice

A character's actions and feelings also help a reader identify the traits of a character. How does Bruno feel at the beginning of the story?

• Excited & Busy

• Cold & Grumpy

Scenario Questions

Character Traits

Multiple Choice

Bejni had good manners. He said thank you whenever he was given anything. If he needed something he would always say please. He also said excuse me if he bumped into someone. Benj is:

• polite

• forgetful

• jealous

Multiple Choice

Alexis filled her bedroom with things she made. She loved to paint beautiful paintings and hoped to be an artist one day. Alexis loved to write poems about her friends too. Alexis is:

• caring

• creative

• respectful

Multiple Choice

Last week, when a new girl came to Makayla's class, Makayla showed her around the school and introduced her to all of her friends.

Which word best describes Makayla?

• friendly

• cruel

Multiple Select

What character traits would you look for in a friend?

• jealous

• kind

• selfish

• responsible