Character Studies--Taking Stock and Self-Assessing

Character Studies--Taking Stock and Self-Assessing

Find your Narrative Reading Self-Assessment Rubric

We'll just be looking at this strand--Inferring about Characters and Other Story Elements/Character Traits

Let's Take a Look at Level 2 Expectations

□ I wrote about the big things the main character does, says, and thinks.

□ I wrote about what these big things show about the character’s feelings.

□ If the main character faces a problem and solves it, I wrote about how the character does that.

Level 3

□ I wrote an idea about the kind of person a character is, telling a trait (and not a feeling).

□ When a character makes a big decision, I could use what happened earlier and the character’s traits to tell why the character made that choice.

Level 4

□ I wrote about how the character is complicated. He/she is more than one way (has multiple traits).

□ I also wrote about what’s going on inside the character (motivations and wants).

□ When I thought and wrote about a character, I showed that I knew that small actions can signal something big.

Poll

Take a look at our character jot from earlier in the story in the picture. Would you label this thinking a 2, 3, or 4?

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Open Ended

Why did you grade this jot the way you did?

Poll

Take a look at our character jot from earlier in the story in the picture. Would you label this thinking a 2, 3, or 4?

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Poll

Take a look at our character jot from earlier in the story in the picture. Would you label this thinking a 2, 3, or 4?

• 2

• 3

• 4

Open Ended

Why did you grade this jot the way you did?

Open Ended

What is something we have not yet done? What goal can we make?

Open Ended

Set a goal for yourself and share it here.

Also, be sure to write down your goal in your reading notebook so you can see it and think about it every day! Mark your goal on your self assessment rubric too!