Character Education

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Character-based Text Talks

Text Talk lessons are a researched-based, effective method of presenting vocabulary acquisition within a read aloud text (Beck and McKeown, 2001). My character trait based text talk is utilizeed to support social emotional learning while teaching Tier 2 vocabulary in a read aloud setting with students.

Each of my text talks focuses on a Character Pillar of either Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, or Citizenship as a part of the Character Counts! framework.

References:

Beck, I. & McKeown, M. (2001, Sept). Text Talk: Capturing the benefits of read-aloud experiences for young children. The Reading Teacher. Vol. 55, No. 1