Identifying Character Emotions Activities

Description

Looking for new printable or digital activities for character analysis? Students can use these character emotions charts and reading response sheets to infer how characters are feeling. Teachers will enhance students’ writing by using the provided activities for the Show, Not Tell strategy which encourages students to add details to describe how characters feel. Students will also improve their vocabulary with the EDITABLE readers notebook pages to find synonyms for emotion words and practice reading fluency with the engaging task cards.

The activities in this resource can be used to help students express their own feelings, analyze characters’ feelings, and add details to their writing. Through the use of engaging activities focusing on emotion words, students will also expand their vocabulary. Teachers can use the included resources during independent reading, literacy centers, guided reading, or enlarge the anchor charts for mini-lessons.

Digital Activities for Identifying Character Emotions:

• Character Emotions Analysis task cards
• Synonyms Interactive Notebook pages
• Beginning, Middle, End retelling sheet
• First, Then, Next, Last retelling sheet
• Reading Response sheet to make inferences about a character based on their words, thoughts, and actions

Printable Activities for Identifying Character Emotions:

• Character emotions charts
• Character emotions chart for adding synonyms
• EDITABLE readers notebook pages for finding synonyms of emotion words
• EDITABLE Show, Don’t Tell readers notebook pages
• 5 reading response sheets to analyze characters’ feelings
• Act It Out activity cards and recording sheet
• Fluency task cards with recording sheet and answer key