1. adventurous
Character Traits
When you read a story watch the characters as if they were real people.
greedy
aggressive
unhappy
fearful

2. Character Traits:
Help us understand why characters speak and act the way they do.
Help us understand what the characters think or why they have certain beliefs.
Help us understand a characters relationships with other characters.
Help us predict what characters might do next.
Help us make inferences and to draw conclusions about events in the story.

3. To identify character traits think of the following:
What does the character say and do?
What does the character think and feel?
How does the character look?
What do the other characters think about the character?
How does the character make you feel?
graceful
shy

4. Take notes while you read.
The Name of Your Character: ________
What does the character say and do?
(Personality Traits)
What does the character think and feel?
(Personality or Values)
How does the character look?
(Physical Traits)
What do the other characters think about the character?
(Values)
How does the character make you feel?
sneaky
intelligent

5. Read The Excerpt And Identify a Character Trait for Baboushka
Once upon a time, in a small village in Russia there lived a woman called Baboushka.
Baboushka was very house-proud. She had the tidiest house in the village and the most beautiful garden.
She was always cooking and cleaning, scrubbing and sweeping, polishing and painting.
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clean
helpful
From: BBC CBeebies Stories

6. All the villagers were out in the square talking about a bright new star that had just appeared in the sky. Everyone was very excited about the star because it brought great news.
But Baboushka didn't even notice the dazzling star - she was far too busy cleaning her house.
Lets Use An Organizer

7. The Name of Your Character: Baboushka
What does the character say and do?
What can you say about her personality?
What does the character think and feel?
How does the character look?
What do the other characters think about the character?
How does the character make you feel?
She was always cleaning. She doesn’t notice the dazzling star.
She looks very clean and neat.
She is very proud of her house.
What does that tell you about her physical traits?
What does that say about her personality or values?
She had the tidiest house and most beautiful garden.
I like her.
She seems like a nice lady.

8. Did You Notice? Character traits are descriptive adjectives.
We can describe characters using character traits that tells us the specific qualities of the character.
An author may tell us the character traits directly, but more often the author will show us these traits by what the character does.
evil
protective

9. How does understanding character traits help me understand the story?