Character Perspective Charting: Helping Children to Develop a More Complete Conception of Story

Timothy Shanahan and Sherell Shanahan

Character Perspective Charting is an instructional technique that fosters story understanding.

The scene is a fourth-grade suburban U.S. classroom. Students have finished reading a short story, and now their desks are pushed together into five small groups. The students in each group are engaged in a sometimes spirited conversation about the story. One boy says, "No, no...I don't think those characters have the same intentions."

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