Character

PA Grade 5, Reading Anchor
R5.B.1.1.1
Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze components of fiction and literary nonfiction.

Character (may also be called narrator, speaker, subject of a biography):
Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze character actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within fictional or literary nonfictional text.
Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze the relationship between characters and other components of text.

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