Want a fun and interactive activity to help teach your students about character traits? This Giraffes Can't Dance pack includes a variety of character trait sorting cut and paste activities and printables for students to consolidate their understanding of character traits. By undertaking these activities students are expanding their vocabulary and making inferences about characters in order to sort the character traits correctly. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Morning work ♥ Assessment ♥ Homework ♥ Book Companion This pack includes two sets of the following printables in color and black and white: • Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort Gerald’s character traits into beginning of the story and end of the story. • Worksheet - students list their own character traits about Gerald at the beginning of the story and the end of the story. They also write a sentence about Gerald’s best quality. • Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort Gerald’s traits into appearance and qualities. • Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort the character traits into positive and negative. The positive traits were displayed by Gerald and the negative traits were by the other animals in the story. • Cut and paste sorting worksheet – sort the cricket’s traits into appearance and qualities. • Worksheet – students write their own positive traits to describe Gerald and negative traits to describe the other animals. They Then write what they infer about the other animals. • Cut and paste sorting worksheets – sort the words into synonyms and antonyms for the words: proud and brave. • Answer sheets for all cut and paste sorting activities provided

The BFG- These task cards will provide your students with practice with identifying character traits, feelings and physical traits of characters in the story. These multiple choice questions will allow your students to make inferences about characters. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Assessment ♥ SCOOT ♥ Class discussions ♥ Early finishers The kit consists of: • 2 sets of 32 task cards- colored and black lined sets • Student response sheet • Answer Sheet

Want to get your students thinking about character traits? This kit (18 pages) provides additional practice in sorting various character traits for popular fairy tale characters. Students will be making inferences about characters to determine which character trait they have. Product Use • Literacy centers • Morning Work • Homework • Assessment • Early Finishers • Class discussions This package includes: • 5 cut and paste sorting worksheets - sort character traits for 2 fairy tale characters. • 4 cut and paste sorting worksheets - sort character traits (bad, cruel, smart & brave) into synonyms and antonyms. • 9 answer sheets for cut and paste activities above.

Giraffes Can't Dance - These task cards are designed for first grade to third grade to provide your students with practice with identifying character traits, feelings and physical traits of characters in the story. These multiple choice questions will allow your students to make inferences about characters. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Assessment ♥ Scoot ♥ Class discussions ♥ Early finishers The kit consists of: • 2 sets of 20 task cards- colored and black lined sets • Student response sheet • Answer Sheet

Do you want a fun and engaging Christmas activity for your kiddos to learn about character traits? These task cards include multiple choice questions to get your students thinking about character traits. Product Use • Christmas activities • Literacy centers • Work work • Early finishers • Scoot This kit includes two sets of 20 Christmas themed task cards- 1 color copy & 1 black & white copy. Students will read each task card, make inferences and select the character trait that best describes the character/person. Student response sheet and answer sheet is also included. I have included American and Australian spelling in this pack.

Winter Sight Word Pack (17 pages) is a kit of no prep printables! There are a variety of Winter cut and paste worksheets for students to consolidate their understanding of sight word recognition. These Winter cut and paste activities would be great to use for: literacy centers, homework or morning work. This pack includes: • 7 cut and paste Winter theme cut and paste sight word worksheets & answer sheets - read the simple sentence and match the picture • 1 cut and paste Winter theme sorting worksheet & answer sheet- sort sight words into 2, 3 and 4 letters.

Winter & Christmas theme sorting pack (34 pages) is a kit of no prep printables! There are a variety of sorting cut and paste worksheets for students to consolidate their understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, syllables, sight words, odd/even numbers and shapes. These Winter Sorting activities would be great to use for: literacy centers, homework or morning work. This kit consists of: • 2 cut and paste sorting worksheets & answer sheets -sort Christmas words into nouns/adjectives & nouns/verbs • 1 cut and paste sorting worksheets & answer sheet- sort Christmas words into syllables • 1 odd and even sorting worksheet & answer sheet • 1 2D & 2D shape sorting worksheet & answer sheet • 2 cut and paste sorting worksheets & answer sheets -sort Winter words into nouns/adjectives & nouns/verbs • 1 cut and paste sorting worksheets & answer sheet- sort Winter words into syllables • 9 cut and paste worksheets - sorting sight words (variety of activities) & answer sheets Please see the preview to see a snap shot of the Winter & Christmas sorting activities.

Materials Task Cards - What would happen if.....? These fun science task cards are a fun way to promote conversation and creative thinking about materials and their uses. There is sure to be plenty of laughter in your classroom whilst using these task cards. Each task card contains a question: What would happen if......? Here are some examples of the task cards: * What would happen if a car was made out of glass? * What would happen if a mirror was made out of paper? * What would happen if a shopping trolley was made out of fabric? * What would happen if sunglasses were made out of clay? There are 32 task cards included in the pack. These task cards can be implemented into your science or literacy centers, used as class discussions or to play, SCOOT with. Student can write their responses in their science journals or mini whiteboards or they could draw and label their answers.

Winter Simple and Compound Sentences Sort (14 pages) is a fun and engaging way for your students to identify and revise their sentences. For this activity students will sort the sentences into the correct category: simple or compound. This activity is great to use in your daily literacy centers. This pack includes two sets in color and black lined version: • Teacher instruction sheet • Fifteen Winter/Christmas simple sentences • Fifteen Winter/Christmas compound sentences • Two headers - simple and compound • Student response sheet - black and white only • Answer sheet - black and white only Simply print and laminate the sheets onto hard card stock paper for durability. Then cut and the sorts are ready to be used in your literacy centers. Students could also copy their simple and compound sentences into their writing books.

This fun and engaging kit includes 57 pages (no prep) of fun filled Christmas activities. The pack is primarily targeted to K-1 and consists of literacy and math worksheets. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Math centers ♥ Early Finishers ♥ Homework The Christmas activities includes: ♥ 5 Christmas Sorts: nouns/verbs, nouns/adjectives, 1 syllable/2 syllables, 2D/3D shapes, odd/even numbers ♥ 5 answer sheet to sorts ♥ 10 coloring Christmas coloring sheets ♥ 5 cut and paste activities - label Character traits: Santa, Elf and Rudolf ♥ 5 answer sheets to cut and paste activities ♥ Dear Santa - letter template - with handwriting lines ♥ 8 cut and paste activities - read the sentences with sight words and match to the correct picture. ♥ Partitioning worksheet - to 10 ♥ Christmas patterns ♥ Christmas number stories: addition and subtraction ♥ Answer sheets included for all math activities ♥ 2 tens frames worksheets - to 10

Character Traits Christmas Themed Pack (27 pages ) is perfect to use when undertaking a unit on character traits. Included in this pack is bright and colorful cut and paste activities and anchor charts (answer sheets) for students to consolidate their understanding of character traits. These activities would be great to use in: reading and writing activities, literacy centers or morning work. The character traits pack entails the following activities for: Santa Claus, Rudolf and an Elf • 1 page- Teacher instructions • 2 sets of 6 cut and paste worksheets (available in color or black and white) - .Students cut and pase the qualities to match the characters. Students also cut and paste adjectives to describe the appearance of Santa, Rudolf and The Elf. • 2 sets of 6 answer sheets or anchor charts (color or black and white) - you can use the answer sheets to display on your bulletin board so students can refer to them whilst writing. • 2 character sheet worksheets (black and white only) - students draw Mrs Claus and write 4 qualities and 4 adjectives to describe her appearance. These worksheets are suitable for students who require extension. Please see the preview before purchasing to get a further insight into what this package entails.

Who am I? (20 pages )- Consists of a variety of differentiated, fun and engaging no prep worksheets for your students to consolidate their understanding about character traits. Product Use: • Writing centers • Literacy centers • Morning work • Work with a buddy • Early Finishers • Fast Finishers • Homework This resource entails the following activities for the popular fairy tales - Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White and The Three Little Pigs: • 5 cut and paste worksheets - students match the character to the character traits - suited for students who require support in writing. • 5 Answer sheets for cut & paste worksheets only • 5 worksheets - students write a character trait to match each fairy tale character - suited for students who can construct a simple sentence. • 5 worksheets - students write 3 character traits to match the character - suited for students who require extension or the more able writers. • 1 worksheet - students choose their own fairy tale character and write 3 character traits to describe the character. This activity is great for extension or early finishers. This worksheet is also a great resource to have as you can use it for any characters throughout the year.

Fall Simple and Compound Sentences Sort is a fun and engaging way for your students to identify and revise their sentences. For this activity students will sort the sentences into the correct category: simple or compound. This activity is great to use in your daily literacy centers. This pack includes two sets in color and black lined version: • Teacher instruction sheet • Fifteen Fall/Halloween simple sentences • Fifteen Fall/Halloween compound sentences • Two headers - simple and compound • Student response sheet - black and white only • Answer sheet - black and white only Simply print and laminate the sheets onto hard card stock paper for durability. Then cut and the sorts are ready to be used in your literacy centers. Students could also copy their simple and compound sentences into their writing books.

Want a fun and interactive way for your class to learn about character traits for popular fairy tale characters. These dab it worksheets will provide additional practice for your students to learn about various character traits of characters and expand their vocabulary. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Word Work ♥ Daily Five ♥ Early Finishers ♥ Homework The pack entails the following activities for the popular fairy tales: ♥ Jack and the Beanstalk ♥ Litte Red Riding Hood ♥ The Three Little Pigs ♥ Cinderella ♥ Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Product includes: ♥ 13 dab it worksheets - students dab the character traits for the fairy tale characters. ♥ 13 answer sheets ♥1 blank dab it worksheet - students can draw their own character and write character traits. The can then swap with a partner and their partner has to dab the character traits.

A fun an engaging set of task cards to enhance your students understanding of character traits. This set of task cards can assist your students to infer character traits about popular fairy tale characters. This product can be used as whole class, small group, early finishers or incorporated into your literacy centers. Characters that are included in the task cards are from the following fairy tales: Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella. Product Includes: • 2 sets of 20 Fairy Tale themed task cards- 1 purple chevron background with cute and colorful graphics & white background with color graphics. • Student response sheet • Answer sheet - note some answers will vary Question types and activities • Listing character traits of popular fairy tale characters • Multiple choice questions • Replacing synonyms in sentences with underlined character trait • Underlining character traits in each sentence • Drawing and labelling Little Red Riding Hood • Describing character traits of characters • Making inferences about characters and their character traits

Character Traits Activity Pack for 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl (30 pages) - Is perfect to use when undertaking units on character traits, novel studies or descriptive writing. Included in this activities pack is vibrantly colored and black and white versions of cut and paste worksheets. Anchor charts (answer sheets), and teacher instructions are also included. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Morning work ♥ Assessment ♥ Homework ♥ Book Companion The pack entails the following activities: ♥ Teacher instructions ♥ Cut and paste worksheets - students cut and paste the qualities and physical traits of Matilda and Miss Trunchbull ♥ Cut and paste worksheets - students cut and paste the qualities of Miss Honey ♥ Answer sheets or anchor charts for cut and paste activities only - you can use the answer sheets to display on your bulletin board so students can refer to them whilst writing. ♥ Write character traits- students write qualities and physical traits for Mr and Mrs Woodworm.

These comprehension task cards provide your students with practice with answering both literal and inferential questions about the popular story, 'Tacky the Penguin' by Helen Lester. The questions are comprised of: ♥ 'Right there' multiple choice questions -answers are in the text ♥ 'On my own' questions - answers are not in the text. Students use their prior knowledge to answer questions. ♥ 'Author and you' questions – answer not directly in the text. Students find answers by using their prior knowledge and fitting together clues from the text. This kit includes two sets of thirty-two task cards, teacher instructions and student response sheet and answer sheet. The sets are available in full color or colored graphics with white background. The first 16 questions are in the form of multiple choice and include an answer sheet. Students use the student response sheet provided to answer the questions. For the remaining task cards students are to write in their journals or on the writing paper provided as the answers require more detail and explanation. There is no answer sheet for these task cards because student responses will vary. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Morning work ♥ Assessment ♥ Guided Reading Groups ♥ Early finishers

Fact or Opinion Penguin Sort - (15 pages)is a fun and engaging way for your students to identify facts and opinions. For this activity students will sort the sentences into the correct category: fact or opinion. This activity is great to use in your daily literacy centers or as a whole class activity. This pack includes two sets in color and black lined version: • Teacher instruction sheet • Fifteen facts about penguins • Fifteen opinions about penguins • Two headers - fact and opinion • Student response sheet - black and white only • Answer sheet Simply print and laminate the sheets onto hard card stock paper for durability. Then cut and the sorts are ready to be used in your literacy centers. Students could also copy their facts and opinions into their writing books. Please see the preview to see a snap shot of the product.

Yes/No Fairy Tale Game is a fun way for students to think about character traits. This game provides students with additional practice in making inferences about characters and sorting their character traits into the correct category. Students will also be expanding their vocabulary. Product Use ♥ Literacy centers ♥ Assessment ♥ Whole class game, in pairs of small groups ♥ Class discussions The whole class game is a great to way to promote discussions with your class about various characters in popular fairy tales and why students infer that the character has a particular trait. The game can be played with 1-2 players or played as a whole class. To play the game you select a character card and a character trait card. You then sort the character trait card under the correct heading. For example if I selected the character Cinderella and the character trait elegant I would place the character trait card elegant under the yes heading. (see preview for example). I then select 7 more character traits and place it under the correct heading: yes or no. Once player 1 has had their turn they return the cards to the bottom of the piles and then it is player 2's turn. The game consists of: • 2 heading - yes/no • teacher instructions • 14 character cards - Cinderella, The Prince, Fairy Godmother, The First Little Pig, The Second Little Pig, The Third Little Pig, The Big Bad Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf, Grandma, Wood Cutter, Jack, Giant and Mother. • 64 character trait cards By playing this game regularly in class students will have a deeper understanding about character traits. Answers may vary with students as they have different beliefs and personal opinions.

Character Traits {inferring, making connections} pack designed to give your students a thorough knowledge and understanding about the following 10 character traits: persistent, loving, kind, respectful, smart, cooperative, generous, compassionate, helpful and proud. At the completion of these character traits activities your students will be able to understand each of the character traits listed above and be able to use it in context. The students will also learn new words, synonyms, dictionary definitions and be able to make inferences and text-to-self connections about character traits. The character traits kit consists of: ♦ Teacher instructions ♦ 10 Character Traits - Making Inferences Task cards – color or black and white version available ♦ Student response sheet & answer sheet ♦ 10 vocabulary maps for each of the character traits ♦ 10 Character Traits Writing Prompts – making text-to-self connections for each of the 10 character traits. Inferring Character Traits – Task Cards The task cards are to be implemented first to check students prior knowledge and understanding about the 10 character traits. Students read each task card. They then infer what character trait the person displays and selects one of the answers: a, b or c and records their answers on the student response sheet. Next they check their answers with the answer sheet provided. Vocabulary Maps Print the colourful vocabulary maps in color or grayscale, whichever you prefer. For this activity students will need a dictionary and thesaurus (hand held, or can use dictionary.com on the net). Each vocabulary map has a character trait. Students are to write the dictionary meaning or write their own meaning, write 2 or more synonyms for the character trait and write a sentence about that character trait. Please see the example (persistent) provided. Making Connections – Writing For this activity students are to make a text-to-self connection about each character trait. They are to make connections in their life and write a time when they displayed each character trait or someone else they know. Please see the example provided. Please see the preview for a closer look at this great Character Traits kit.