Subject: English
Lesson 3
Key vocabulary:
character traits
inside
outside
Teacher Input
Starter (Talk for Writing):
Paragraph 3 - Sydney Spider,
A Tale of Friendship
Discuss and produce ideas
for the story of Sydney
Spider by having everyone
participate in an exercise
called "Talk for Writing."
Class/Teacher: Date: 12th- 16th June
Standards:
 3SL1: Participate and engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse peers and adults, expressing ideas
clearly, and building on those of others.
 3R3: In literary texts, describe character traits, motivations, or feelings, drawing on specific details from the text
 3R4: Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, and academic and content-specific words
Learning Objective: To be able to identify and describe character traits both inside and outside.
Resources: Cultural Links:
Essential Question: Why is it important to learn about character traits?
Group Activities
Working Below Working Towards Working At Working Above
Success Criteria: Success Criteria: Success Criteria: Success Criteria:
 I can identify the  I can use different  I can describe myself  I can create a paragraph
character traits inside character traits to using different using different character
and outside. describe a friend. character traits. traits to describe a
character from a story.
AFL Question against LO:
Students will be sorting out
different character traits.
This is to test if the students
have prior knowledge about
the lesson.
Activity: Activity: Activity: Activity:
Identify the character traits Describe and write your Draw a picture of yourself Create a paragraph
whether they are inside or friend’s character traits. and describe yourself inside describing your favorite
outside traits. and outside. character.

Teaching activity (I DO):

(Modelling)
Begin the lesson by engaging
students in a discussion
about the concept of
character traits. Explain to
students that character traits
can be categorized into two
types: inside traits and
outside traits.

Teacher and Students (WE

DO):
Students will work in groups
to complete the activity.
They will be answering the
question: What character
traits does Sydney have?

Student-centered (YOU DO):

(AFL tool used)

Students will complete the

given table based on the
character of the book
“Sidney the Sipider”

Plenary (Exit Ticket):

Students will read the given
task cards and will answer
the given question.
Reflections: Key: Student-centered: Purple AFL: GREEN G+T: Orange
• What did I learn? Levelled Questioning: Pink SEN student: Blue
• How did I feel?
• Why did I feel like
that?
• How will I use , what
I have learnt?