Character Feelings

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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One strategy you can use to help you understand what you read is to infer character emotions.

In this case, infer means you have to use clues in the text to understand what characters are feeling and how their feelings change throughout the story.

The author does not always tell you exactly what the characters are thinking or feeling. Being able to understand how the characters feel — and how their feelings change — might help you understand the characters' actions or why certain things happened in the story.

Take a look at these examples.

Practice discovering a character's emotions by selecting a book of your choice from Children's Storybooks Online. If you scroll around, you will find different free books to choose from.

As you make your way through the story, draw emoji faces that show the different feelings the main character experiences. Make sure to put the page number beneath each drawing as his or her emotion changes.

When you are finished with the book, take a look at all the different emotions the character experienced. Reflect on a day when you had a similar set of emotions.

• How do you think characters in a book are like real people?

When you are ready, continue on to the Got It? section to meet a lion and a mouse!