Description
Help your students build stronger reading comprehension skills with these engaging Character Traits Practice Google Slides for Kindergarten! This interactive 18-slide reading comprehension lesson teaches students how to think about characters while they read through an engaging decodable story.
Students don’t just practice decoding words—they also stop throughout the story to discuss what the character is saying, doing, thinking, and feeling. By the end of the lesson, they’ll use those clues to describe the character and explain what they learned, helping them develop deeper comprehension skills from the very beginning of their reading journey.
Perfect for whole group instruction, small groups, intervention, or reading strategy lessons, these Google Slides combine explicit comprehension instruction with meaningful phonics practice.
What’s Included?
⭐ Word Warm-Up Slide: Practice reading tricky words from the story before reading.
⭐ Word Building Activity: Students use provided letters to build and read words.
⭐ Let’s Get Blending! Activity: Interactive blending practice with four decodable words.
⭐ Character Traits Mini Lesson: Explicit instruction teaching students how to think about and talk about characters while they read.
⭐ Decodable Story: My Pal Jen
- Version with point-under-word tracking
- Version with sliding tracker for fluency practice
⭐ Character Reflection Discussion: Students discuss what they learned about the character after reading the story.
Skills Students Will Practice
- Character traits practice
- Reading comprehension
- Identifying what characters say, do, think, and feel
- Using text evidence to describe characters
- Reading short vowel CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words
- Decoding unfamiliar words
- Reading with fluency
- Tracking print from left to right
Perfect For
⭐ Whole group phonics lessons
⭐ Small group reading instruction
⭐ Reading intervention
⭐ Science of Reading aligned instruction
⭐ Kindergarten reading comprehension lessons
⭐ Character traits practice
Literacy Standards Addressed
- RF.K.1 — Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- RF.K.1a — Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
- RF.K.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- RF.K.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
- L.K.2c — Write letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.
- L.K.2d — Spell simple words phonetically using sound-letter relationships.
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