Amanda Crocco

Mrs. Kanya
Option II Tomorrow’s Teachers
26 September 2017
Lesson Plan

Grade: 2
Subject: Language Arts
Lesson: Getting to Know the Character
Unit: Story Elements
Duration: 2 days

Objectives:
 Students will be able to describe a character’s traits.
 Students will be able to predict what a character will do next and why, based upon what
they already know about the character.

Essential Questions:
1. How do you learn about a character?
2. What do you think the character will do next, and why?

Resources/Materials:
 Text
 FAST Diagram Worksheets
 Chart paper
 Colored Markers
 Character Outline Templates for Coloring and Adding Information

Content Standards:
 NJSLSA.R1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences and relevant connections from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing
or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
 NJSLSA.R3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact
over the course of a text.

Literacy Standards or Common Core:

 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to major
events and challenges.

Activities/Learning Experiences:
1. Hook
 Quick Slideshow of Funny Clipart People Showing Emotions
 Discuss for each:
i. What do they look like?
ii. How do you think they feel?
 iii. Why?
2. Instruction
 PowerPoint Lesson: Getting to Know the Character
3. Activities
 FAST Diagram on the character (Feelings, Actions, Sayings, and Thoughts)
i. Small groups of 3 or 4 work together to discuss and fill out as much as
they can of a FAST Diagram.
ii. Whole class comes together to share what they found. Teacher writes their
findings on four pieces of chart paper using different color markers to
designate each section of FAST.
4. Closing
 Students tell the person next to them one thing they learned about the character
today.

Assessment(s):
 Students will be given an outline of the character to color. They will label eight important
traits of their choice, two from each section of FAST, around their coloring. They will
use the class FAST charts for reference.