What a Character!

Character Study as a Guide to Literary Meaning Making in Grades K–8

Nancy L. Roser and Miriam G. Martinez, editors, with Junko Yokota and Sharon O’Neal

Bring text and its meaning alive for your students!

This collection offers the perspectives of classroom teachers, researchers, and children’s book authors, including award winners Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Paterson. They share their thoughts on the power of character study and how to use it to guide elementary- and middle-grade students through creating, reading, and comprehending text. The contributors evaluate character-rich books and offer instructional strategies that will help you become a more insightful teacher as you implement character study in your classroom.

An IRA Book Club selection, May 2005

© 2005 | 232 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-563-X | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-563-4

Also of interest:

Reading and Writing Literary Genres

Young Adult Literature in the Classroom

Also by Nancy Roser and Miriam Martinez:

Book Talk and Beyond

Related ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans:

“Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia”

“Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images”

“Inferring How and Why Characters Change”