Ready Text Lesson 6 Characters RL3 Intro

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Match the following

• what characters do

• what characters think

• what characters say

• what characters feel

• why characters do things

actions

thoughts

speech / dialogue

feelings

motivation

• actions

• thoughts

• speech / dialogue

• feelings

• motivation

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Understanding what ​

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are like, and ​

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they ​

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the way they ​

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, can help you see how they ​ drive what ​

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in a story.

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characters

act

why

do

happens

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​

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are the ​

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in a ​

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. When you read a story, think about what the characters ​

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and ​

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in certain ways.

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people or animals

Characters

story

say and do

why they act

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Just like real people, characters have ​

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. They have traits, or

​

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, such as courage, pride, or honesty. They also have

motivations, or ​

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. A character's

actions contribute, ​

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, to the sequence of events in a story.

The sequence of events is ​

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. Each action changes the story and what happens next.

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feelings

special qualities

reasons for doing what they do

or add

everything that happens, in the order it&ZeroWidth

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Choose two traits that describe what the giant is like.

• pleasant

• friendly

• mean

• scary

​pleasant
friendly

Multiple Choice

What does the Giant want? What's his motivation?

• to eat people

• to help people

• for people to help him

• The giant does not have a motivation.

​pleasant
friendly

to help people

Multiple Choice

How does the giant feel?

• mad

• hungry

• sad

• happy

​pleasant
friendly

to help people

happy

Multiple Choice

What does the giant do?

• eats people

• ignores people

• helps people over the mountain

• stops people from going over the mountain

​pleasant
friendly

to help people

happy

helps people over the mountain

Multiple Choice

How do the giant's actions contribute (add to) to the sequence of events?

• The people are able to get over the mountain.

• The people are stopped from going over the mountain.

• The giant goes over the mountain.

• The giant scares the people away from the mountain.

Multiple Choice

What would have happened if the giant had not helped the climbers?

• The people would have gotten over the mountain.

• The giant would have scared the people away from the mountain.

• The giant would have gone over the mountain.

• The people would have not been able to go over the mountain.

Match

Match the following

• characters

• traits

• motivations

• contribute

• sequence of events

who or what the story is about

describe characters

why someone does something

add to

things that happened, in order

• who or what the story is about

• describe characters

• why someone does something

• add to

• things that happened, in order