English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.22a

Describe in detail the characters’ behavior, emotions, and traits and explain how their actions influence events in the story.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • A story author provides descriptions of the characters' behavior, emotions, and traits.
  • The actions of characters in a story affect the events, or plot, of the story.

Skills

  • Provide a detailed description of story characters' behavior, emotions, and traits.
  • Explain how story characters' actions affect the events of the story.

Understanding

  • Understanding each character's behavior, emotions, and traits will help them better understand a story's plot.
  • Characters in a story drive the plot by engaging in different actions.

Vocabulary

  • Describe
  • Character
  • Behaviors
  • Emotions
  • Traits
  • Actions
  • Influence
  • Events
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