Exploring Characters Feelings

Our learning intention today was: "I can think about the characters feelings in a story." We began as a whole group talking about feelings, and named differernt feelings with a special feelings chart. We then talked about thinking about characters feelings when reading by following these steps:

Reading the book

Stopping periodically to think about how the character feels

Asking ourselves how we would feel if we were the character.

Before sending readers out on their own I read a familiar story book - "Wemberly Worried" by Kevin Henkes. As I read out loud I talked out loud and referred to the feelings chart to connect with what the character was feeling . . . "I'm going to think about how this might make the character feel by asking myself:"

'How would I feel if I was the character?'

'Well if this happened to me I would feel . . . '

Then I asked the kids to tell me what they noticed me doing. "Did you see how I stopped and thought about how my character feels by asking myself, 'How would I feel if I was the character?'

Kids then wrote how they would feel if they were Wemberly.