Character Change: Teach, Respond and Recheck

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Explain How a Character Changes

Use early and later story details to explain a change in a character’s choices.

Prerequisites: Learners can read or listen to a short fictional story and point to a sentence or action. No prior lesson on character traits is required.

Prepare: About 5 minutes. Timing: About 40 minutes. Planning estimate: opening 3 minutes, strategy 5, model 7, guided practice 10, independent response 13, closure 2.

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Character Change: Check and Next Steps

Compare accurate early and later words or actions, explain a defensible change in a character’s choices, distinguish it from changed circumstances, and state what the story does not establish.

Prerequisites: For Grade 6; check the prerequisites for your class. Learners can read or listen to a short story and point to words or actions. Use Explain How a Character Changes first when comparing evidence over time needs teaching.

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