Skill Continuum: Characters Identify the characters in a story. Identify the main character. Infer a character's feelings through the pictures. Infer a character's feelings using the pictures and print. Support inferences about characters using the print or pictures. Infer and explain character motivations (why a character did or said something). Infer character traits. Infer character traits and support them with text evidence. Use information about recurring characters and/or character traits to predict what a character will do or say next. Compare and contrast characters’ traits in different texts. Share and justify opinions about characters and characters’ choices. Explain how and why characters change across a story. Explain what a character has learned over the course of a story. *Note: Some of the items on this continuum may be rearranged to meet the needs of the students or texts. © Alison Ryan, LearningAtThePrimaryPondcom