Kindergarten · Reading · week 34

Character Feelings: How Did They Feel?

Identify how a character feels in a story, using clues from the words and the pictures.

Characters have feelings, just like you do. A character can feel happy, sad, scared, or surprised. Words and pictures both give clues about a feeling.

Look at what the character does and says, and look at the picture too. Both can show a feeling even when the story never says the feeling word out loud.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Ask "how do you think that character feels" at least once during or after every story this week.
  • Point to a face in a picture as one clue, and to what the character does or says as another clue.
  • Connect it to real life gently, asking how your child would feel in the very same moment.
  • Accept any reasonable feeling that is actually supported by the story, since more than one answer can be right.
Talk about it:
  • How did a character in your story feel today?
  • What clue helped you know that feeling?
  • Have you ever felt the same way as that character?

Mastery looks like: They name a reasonable feeling for a story character and point to a real clue from the words or pictures that supports it.

Common stumbles: Naming a feeling with no real clue to support it; looking only at the picture and ignoring clues in the words, or the other way around.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

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