Character traits Name:

Character traits describe how a character in a story looks or acts. Identifying character traits helps you understand
why characters in a story do what they do.
1. Write the name of the book and the author. Then fill in the character’s name.
2. Fill in three different traits about the character.
3. Fill in evidence from the story to support the character traits you’ve identified.

Title and author:

Character

Trait Trait Trait

Evidence Evidence Evidence

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Character traits Name:
Character traits describe how a character in a story looks or acts. Identifying character traits helps you understand
why characters in a story do what they do.
1. Write the name of the book and the author. Then fill in the character’s name.
2. Fill in three different traits about the character.
3. Fill in evidence from the story to support the character traits you’ve identified.

Title and author: Amazing Grace, by Mary Hoffman

Character
Grace

Trait Trait Trait

Imaginative Determined Talented

Evidence Evidence Evidence

Grace loves to act out stories she Even though Natalie and Raj told Grace won the audition for Peter
reads or hears. She pretends to be Grace she couldn’t play Peter Pan in Pan, and she did a great job in the
many different kinds of characters. the school play because she was a school play!
girl and black, she didn’t give up.

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