What Is a Character Trait

What are character traits?

• How a character is feeling in the moment.

• Normal qualities of a character's personality.

• A lesson the character learns in the story.

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What are emotions?

• The usual qualities of a character personality.

• What a character likes to do for fun activities.

• How the character is feeling in the moment.

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What information could help us infer that Mario is a kind character?

• Mario always holds the door open for people behind him.

• Mario always says "good game" to his friends even if he loses!

• If Mario sees someone playing alone at recess, he asks them to join his game.

• All three of these examples help show that Mario is a kind character.

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What three aspects of a character's personality help us to infer their character traits?

• The character's words, actions and thoughts.

• The character's feelings, emotions and thoughts.

• The character's words, favorite activities and thoughts.

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Select all of the POSITIVE character traits.

• Generous

• Rude

• Patient

• Selfish

• Honest

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Select all of the NEGATIVE character traits.

• Caring

• Dishonest

• Motivated

• Lazy

• Untrustworthy

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Which character trait means not getting overly excited or angry in situations where other people might

• artistic
• calm
• loyal
• generous

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What can you use to figure out what a character's traits are?

• what the character says

• what the character thinks

• how the character reacts to things

• all answers are correct

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While no one was looking, Emma took her brother's toy and put it in her backpack. What could be a character trait for Emma?

• Honest

• Patient

• Sneaky

• Trustworthy

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Manny was not afraid of anything. He always tried new things and stood up for what he thought was the right thing to do. What could be a character trait for Manny?

• Athletic

• Brave

• Intelligent

• Believable

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