Character Traits

Unit 7.1 Being Puerto Rican Through Folktales

What is a character?

A character is a person in the story, animal or inanimate object that drives the story forward.

A character has feelings thoughts and problems.

To learn about a character in a story pay attention to their actions, thoughts and words and their relationship with other characters.

What is a character trait?

• It is something special about the character.

• It can be something special about the way the character looks or acts.

• Traits are words like “smart”, “pretty”, “old” and “funny”.

Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Now it’s your turn

Use the graphic

organizer to compare the characters of Guanina and Rosamada.