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Getting Up Close & Personal

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Getting Up Close & Personal

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  1. IDEASCharacter Development/Adding DetailsMaterials Needed:Nothing! 1. Tell students that it is important for your reader to fully understand what a character looks like in their writing. Good writers add lots of detail so the reader can see the same picture in their mind that the author does. 2. Use the visuals to show that if there is vauge descriptions (“The little girl smiled”) you will have different pictures of characters as opposed to more specific details leads everyone to a more similar picture. 3. For the “experiment” section… Tell the students you have some “magic binoculars” (you can just use imaginary ones) and are looking at a person/pet/character (this powerpoint shoes a dog). Tell the students that they need to ask you questions, getting more and more specific, to see what you see. Record the questions asked. 4. After students have a solid number of questions, share your picture of your person/pet/character with them. Discuss how many questions they needed to ask before they had a clear picture of that person/pet/character.5. Use the question list as a graphic organizer to help them describe a character in their writing. *You can use this lesson with the activity PENNY LESSON to show adding detail of things/places.*Feel free to replace the picture of the dog with a picture of a person/animal/character that is more personal to you!

  2. Getting Up Close & Personal IDEAS: Character Development

  3. Authors use lots of detail to describe characters to the reader. As readers, we need to see the picture that the writer has in their head! This is hard to do if there is not enough description.

  4. If you read, “The little girl smiled.”, we each may have a different picture of that little girl in your mind. You may see:

  5. If you read, “The little girl sat with her head in her hands. She smiled as she smooshed her cheeks together so tight that not even her eyes would open. Her hair, the color of straw, sat in two ponytails high on either side of her head and she fashioned colorful barrettes on either side.”, you have a better idea of that little girl. Did you see this?:

  6. Now…an experiment! I want YOU to see what I am seeing through my imaginary binoculars. I am looking at a dog named Vinny. What do you need to know about Vinny to get a picture of him in your mind?

  7. Here’s Vinny!!!

  8. What questions were important to ask for you to get that picture of Vinny in your mind? Keeping those questions in mind, go back to a piece of writing you have done and get “up close & personal” with one of your characters. Add description!

  9. Challenge: Be on the look out for authors who get “up close & personal” with a character in their story. Can you find a good description of one of the characters in your books?

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