A fourth-grade class brainstorms traits that describe a character from the story they have just read. They list "friendly," "helpful," and "generous." The teacher then asks the students to imagine if the character had traits that were in the opposite of the words the listed. The stduents write a paragraph describing the different ways that the story would be different if the character had these new traits. What skill does this activity help the students to develop?

A) Develop evaluative comprehension
B) Identify textual evidence to support their ideas
C) Understand how characters impact a story
D) Make predictions from details from the text


Answer: C) Understand how characters impact a story
By speculating how the story would be different, the students will see how the character impacted the events in the story.

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