Character+Work

=Character Work=

As Great Readers, We Walk In Our Characters' Shoes To Help Us Do This We:
 * Make a mental movie of the story while we read, actually turning into the character
 * Remember to revise our thinking when we get new information about the character or realize we were wrong
 * Predict or anticipate as if we are the character…We see something coming so we say, “Oh, no!” Remember to predict not only WHAT will happen, but HOW it will happen
 * Think about what their actions are telling me about them. “This action lets me see that my character nervous to talk to his father…
 * Characters are complicated; they have multiple layers—like an onion, you have peel the layers back to find out who your character really is!