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Character Traits Worksheets
Helping students across all grade levels understand literary fictional characters is an important skill to acquire in language arts education. Character traits worksheets are a useful tool for guiding students to think critically about the internal traits, personalities, motivations, and actions of characters in stories. This allows readers to analyze literature on a deeper level.
What Are Character Traits?
A character trait describes the unique personality characteristics and qualities of a specific character in a story. Traits help readers understand and connect with characters. They describe how a character might think, feel, and interact with others. Character traits include a person's attributes, personality, relationships, motivations, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, values, flaws, strengths, and challenges.
Free Character Traits Worksheets
Using free character traits worksheets in the classroom provides several benefits for educators and students. First, worksheets offer a structured approach to examining characterization in age-appropriate ways. Second, our printable and customizable identifying character traits worksheets are cost-effective, allowing teachers to save time and budget. Finally, varied and lively trait worksheets engage student interest and reinforce learning.
Why Use Free Worksheets for Teaching Characterization?
Free character trait worksheets guide students step-by-step in identifying and understanding the personalities of characters. Trait worksheets use direct text evidence about thoughts, words, feelings, and actions to draw conclusions. With practice, students gain skills to interpret indirect characterization. Vibrant images and graphic organizers on free worksheets make learning interactive. When shared online, downloadable worksheets allow customization for specific learning objectives. Overall, thoughtful trait worksheets scaffold learning for readers of all levels.
Character Traits and Feelings Worksheets
Connecting a character's traits to their emotions deepens comprehension. For example, worksheets may link a bully's mean words to feelings of jealousy. Or show how a shy character's quiet nature stems from insecurity. Examining feelings alongside traits helps children relate to characters and their experiences. It also builds empathy. Fun worksheets and activities motivate students to investigate this relationship.
Tips for Making and Using Character Traits and Feelings for Kids Worksheets
- Select stories with strong character emotions like happiness, sadness, fear, etc. Look for changes in feelings too.
- Prior to reading, preview the feelings worksheets. Explain how to match text clues to feelings.
- Pause during reading to point out the character's feelings and what this reveals about them.
- After reading, revisit worksheets. Guide students to cite text support for the trait/feeling matches.
- Display completed worksheets. Discuss how examining feelings develops the reader's understanding.
Character Traits Worksheets Middle School
Middle school is an ideal time to advance skills in analyzing characterization. Students transition from identifying basic traits to inferring complex traits based on a character's motivations, changes over time, and contradictions. Trait worksheets for middle school dive deeper through:
- Multi-faceted traits like hot-headed and determined based on evidence
- Tracing how and why traits evolve across a story
- Comparing differing perspectives of the same character
- Considering influence of cultural context on personality
Ways to Use Trait Worksheets in Middle School
- Sort character quotes or actions under trait headings to justify analysis
- Rank traits from most to least dominant and explain reasoning
- Complete worksheets on protagonist and antagonist for contrast
- Write journal entries or dialogues exploring a character's inner thoughts
- Design a social media profile reflecting a character's traits
Positive Character Traits Worksheets
Lessons on positive traits build character and social-emotional skills. After reading, students identify admirable qualities like honesty, courage, kindness, etc. Worksheets outline specific positive traits to notice. Other activities include:
- Writing about a time they or someone else showed the trait
- Interviewing classmates about traits they value in friends
- Role playing scenarios using positive traits
- Designing trait-based superheroes
- Self-reflection worksheets to set goals for personal growth
Focusing on positive traits through literature provides inspiring models. It teaches that small acts of strength and goodness matter—in stories and in life.
Easy Character Traits Worksheets
When first learning about characterization, easy trait worksheets give students confidence. Character trait worksheets elementary grades use:
- Simple stories with few main characters
- Trait word banks to choose from
- Trait visualization like marking happy, sad or angry faces
- Matching character pictures to traits
- Fill-in-the-blank sentences about characters
- Identification of 1-2 core traits rather than nuanced analysis
With guided practice over time, easy introductory worksheets build essential foundational skills for more complex analysis.
Character Traits Resources from Storyboard That
Storyboard That offers many diverse resources related to teaching character traits, including:
- A Gift Of Chappals - Character Traits: This elementary plan has worksheets to analyze traits of characters in a short story.
- Character Traits in Pattan's Pumpkin: These activities focus on identifying traits based on character actions in a folktale.
- Identifying Character Traits In A Story: Middle school lesson using a novel excerpt and Quote Analysis worksheet.
Check out these additional Storyboard That resources when planning your next character traits lesson! Their standards-aligned materials can supplement any text.
How to Make a Character Traits Worksheet
Choose One of the Premade Templates
We have lots of templates to choose from. Take a look at our example for inspiration!
Click on “Copy Template”
Once you do this, you will be directed to the storyboard creator.
Give Your Worksheet a Name!
Be sure to call it something related to the topic so that you can easily find it in the future.
Edit Your Worksheet
This is where you will include directions, specific images, and make any aesthetic changes that you would like. The options are endless!
Click "Save and Exit"
When you are finished, click this button in the lower right hand corner to exit your storyboard.
Next Steps
From here you can print, download as a PDF, attach it to an assignment and use it digitally, and more!
Happy Creating!
Frequently Asked Questions about Character Traits Worksheets
What are some types of character trait worksheets?
Common worksheet styles include character report cards, trait sort or match activities, completing sentences about traits, trait ranking or graphs, Venn diagrams comparing traits, and illustration or cartoon panels showing traits.
How can worksheets help teach indirect characterization?
Worksheets outline specific traits to identify based on character actions, speech, thoughts, effects on others etc. Teachers model analyzing the text clues. With practice, students improve skills in making inferences about traits.
What are fun follow-up activities using trait worksheets?
Role playing scenes, inventing theme-related traits, imagining character diaries or text messages, designing wanted posters for villains, and illustrating memorable scenes are just a few ideas!
How do I find quality printable character trait worksheets?
Storyboard That offers an excellent selection of free, customizable character trait worksheets and activities. Their vibrant, visual worksheets allow students to visually organize and understand character traits. Options include character report cards, trait sorting activities, character maps, and more. Teachers can choose worksheets by grade level from elementary through high school.
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