Feelings and kindness
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Thinking sheet · Feelings and kindness
How Did the Character Feel?
Track a book character’s feelings at the start, middle and end, with the clues that showed them.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Kids practice
- empathy, reading comprehension, inference
What kids do
“Characters have feelings too! How did yours feel, and how do you know?”
- Book and character:
- Draw their face at each part
- Clues from the words and pictures:
How to run it
- Use a class read-aloud.
- Clues can be words, faces in pictures or actions.
- Ask: have you ever felt like that?
Talk about it
- When did the character’s feelings change most?
- What caused it?
- Would you have felt the same?
Take it further
Write a diary entry from the character on their hardest day.
Pairs well with
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