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📖 1st Grade · ELARL.1.3Unit 5: Characters, setting & feelings

Describing characters

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🎯 Objective: Students describe characters using details.

Lesson outline

  1. Character outline: looks, says, does, feels.
  2. Read aloud; fill the outline together.
  3. Students describe a character from their own book.
  4. Exit: describe one character with a detail.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.1.3

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe characters, settings and major events using key details
  • Find words that suggest feelings

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Key details in stories📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Characters, setting & feelings”

  1. Describing characters
  2. Feeling words
  3. Setting
  4. Who is telling the story?
  5. Compare characters

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