Building Character Read Aloud Lessons | Character Trait Activities for 3rd & 4th

These Building Character Read Aloud lessons and activities are perfect for character trait activities. This bundle includes read aloud activities for the books The Bad Seed, The Invisible Boy, The Most Magnificent Thing, What Do you Do With an Idea, and What Do you Do With a Problem.

You can get to know your students while covering reading comprehension standards. The books and accompanying activities are great for discussing important themes like, growth mindset, inclusion, confidence, empathy, and bullying.      

We pride ourselves on creating lessons that cover reading standards and help your students dive deeply into the text while falling in love with the story and characters. We spent years researching and refining our read aloud lesson plan for young learners.

How do our read aloud lessons work?

Each week's lessons focus on one book and will guide you through 3-5 days of reading lessons. Our detailed lesson plans include answer keys and samples. They are so easy to follow, you could even leave them for a substitute.

Each day, students will have a different purpose for revisiting and talking about the text. Speaking and listening are at the heart of interactive reading, therefore, they are incorporated throughout the lesson as students talk about the text and answer comprehension questions in a whole group or with partners. After reading, revisiting, and discussing the text each day, students complete a response to text activity. At the end of the week, students work on a writing prompt and craftivity.

Each book’s lesson plan includes: 

• Detailed lesson plans with samples
• Comprehension questions with answer keys 
• Response to text activities or graphic organizers (differentiated)
• Writing Prompt
• Craftivity 
• Bulletin Board Titles
• Graphic organizers pre-loaded to Google Slides and Seesaw

*The digital graphic organizers are similar to the printable options.

*Seesaw has many interactive tools to choose from. Text boxes are not pre-loaded on the graphic organizers because students may want to type or draw, which they can easily do with the provided tools in the program.

Prep is quick and easy.  Gather the books, print the lessons and corresponding activities, and you’re ready to teach engaging read alouds for 4-6 weeks!

To teach with this bundle you will need:

The Bad Seed by Jory John

The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires

What Do you Do With an Idea by Kobi Yamada

What Do you Do With a Problem by Kobi Yamada

We found all of these books at our local library, scholasic.com or Amazon.

Click on each read-aloud to view product previews.

Access our free scope and sequence so you can see how we have aligned each of our 3rd and 4th grade read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards.

If you like this product, then you will LOVE all of our other interactive read-alouds.

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