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Remember when you were in elementary school and your parents read you those little books by Roger Hargreaves? Mr. Messy and Little Miss Sunshine? Those little guys? Well they've become a popular cartoon on YTV as well! I've been wanting to collect the whole series of these delightful little books for some time, but the cost of buying them all at once was very daunting. Fortunately, during my most recent spree in the bookstore I decided to just buy a few. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been working on characterization with my grade 5 class. These books are PERFECT for teaching character traits! Not only does each character posess a dominant trait (messy, happy, quiet etc.) they also demonstrate many other traits as you get to know them through the very captivating words of Roger Hargreaves. Today I had my students read the books I bought (one per group) and they wrote down passages they felt showed the characters qualities, brainstormed synonyms and additional characteristics they noticed in the book and even made inferences about the characters from their interactions with other Miss. and Mr. characters!! What brilliant students, what brilliant little books! Give them a try. You'll be happy. I promise!
I wonder what your students perceptions of themselves would be. If they had the chance to create a Little Mr. or Little Miss character representative of themselves, which word would each of them choose?
ReplyDeleteThat's a great suggestion! I will try that with them and see what they say. I can even use the Mr. Men site to help them see all the different characters they could choose from!
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