Have you ever noticed a character who often ends up in the same situations?

1. Have you ever noticed a character who often ends up in the same situations? Hmmm… this has happened to the character before…

2. In this lesson, you will learn how readers use patterns of behavior to figure out how a character might react by asking “What did the character do last time this happened?”

3. Let’s Review Let’s Review Dyamonde is trying to get to know the new boy, Free

4. Forgetting to think back to what a character did in a similar situation. I think he did this before, but I’ll just keep reading

5. Pause when a character is in a familiar situation.

6. Free bumps into kids and doesn’t look where he is going Page 30 Outside of homeroom, Free was harder to ignore. He stomped everywhere, growled at anyone who spoke to him, and kept bumping into kids because he didn’t look where he was going.

7. What did the character do the last time this happened? Page 35 Free stomped into the lunchroom, fists clenched, not looking where he was going-again. He bumped into Jordan, this tiny third-grader.

8. Maybe Free will act like a bully again

9. Pause when a character is in a familiar situation. 1 • Ask: “What did the character do the last time something similar happened?” 2 Jot down your predictions on a sticky note. 3

10. In this lesson, you have learned how to use patterns of behavior to figure out how a character might act by asking “What did the character do the last time something similar happened?”

11. Read a section of your book. • Pause after reading a part where a character is in a familiar situation. • Ask yourself: “What did the character do the last time something similar happened?” • Jot your predictions on a sticky note.

12. Look through your sticky notes from reading to see if you can find a pattern of behaviors for a character. Once you notice a character is often in familiar situations, try asking yourself, “Does the character react the same way each time this happens?”

13. Track a character’s reactions to familiar situations and see if they change during the story.

14. Page 39 On the way back, Dyamonde found Free sitting alone on the stoop of the building corner. She had heard he lived nearby, but this was the first time she had seen him. “Hey,” she said as she passed. Read this excerpt from Make Way for DyamondeDaniel. This is a familiar situation where someone talks to Free. Ask: “What did Free do the last time something similar happened?” Jot your predictions of how Free might speak to Dyamonde down on a sticky note.