Character Traits ESL Support -- Song, Graphic Organizers, Language Objectives

Teach character traits with ALL the scaffolds! With visuals, music, graphic organizers, and even language objectives, your EL students and native speakers will all be identifying character traits and providing evidence in no time. The FAST strategy will give your students a quick and easy reminder of the evidence to look for throughout the unit, and the graphic organizers with visual representations will guide students through the process.

Do your multilingual learners have trouble with the endless lists of character traits, feelings, and actions? The language objectives and sorting activities in this lesson will help you go beyond lists to teach students how to conceptualize and learn new vocabulary!

This resource has everything you need to introduce character traits in a way that will get students engaged and thinking deeply, drawing from specific details in the text.

ELL SUPPORTS

★ Icons and visuals

★ Graphic organizers for recording notes and constructing written responses

★ Sentence Frames, Stems

★ Language Objectives

★ Categorizing, Word Sorts

★ Anchor Chart

Included in this product:

• Song lyrics and video for introducing the F.A.S.T. strategy
• A user-friendly digital graphic organizer on Google Slides
• Printable graphic organizer
• Digital & printable strategy posters for use in the classroom (color and b&w)
• 4 Content Objectives and 4 Language Objectives with lots of visuals
• 3 language sorts on Jamboard

You and your students will need a Google account in order to complete the digital graphic organizer or the Jamboard sorts. I have had great success with assigning this through Google Classroom for my students to complete on Chromebooks, but if you do not use Google Classroom then you can share the link in another way by clicking the “share” button in the top right-hand corner.

© Mrs. Dahlface 2018

Product intended for single classroom use only.

You may not redistribute, edit, sell, or post this item (including the Google Sheets link or the song video link) online, including to a class, school, or district website, without first obtaining permission from the author.