The Things You Can Read: Teaching Idea: Charcter Tees

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Teaching Idea: Charcter Tees

Have you tried having students design "Character Tees"? Here is how it works. Cut out tee-shirts out of poster board or bulletin board paper, and then have students come up with words and images that represent a character from a class novel. Here is the catch, no character names may appear on the "Character Tee". Afterwards, display them and have a guessing contest to see who can correctly identify which tee's belong to which character. Check out Scholastic's website for reproducables to use with this activity. Good luck, and let us know how it works out for you

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