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Who Is the Story About? Finding the Main Character for Kids (Kindergarten English)

🎓 Kindergarten 📖 English ⏱️ 1 min 56 sec Age 5

Find the main character with Luna from DoodleBeez. Children learn that characters are the people or animals in a story, and use simple clues to spot who the story is mostly about. Common Core RL.K.3 and RL.K.1.

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Hi, I'm Luna from DoodleBeez. Every story is about someone. Today we will learn how to find out who a story is about. That special someone is called the main character.

First, what is a character? A character is a person or an animal in a story. A character can even be a talking toy or a friendly dragon! Characters do things and say things.

Some stories have lots of characters. But the main character is the one the story is mostly about. The story follows them from the beginning to the end.

Here are three clues. The main character shows up the most. They often have a problem to solve. And sometimes their name is right in the title of the book!

Listen to this story. Pip the puppy lost his red ball. Pip looked under the bed. Pip asked the cat for help. At last, Pip found his ball in the garden. Hooray for Pip!

So who is the story about? Pip shows up the most. Pip has a problem, a lost ball. The cat helps a little, but the story is about Pip. Pip is the main character.

Now it's your turn. Rosa the rabbit wanted a carrot. A bird showed Rosa the garden. Rosa dug up a big carrot and smiled. Who is the main character? Pause and try. It is Rosa!

Great job! Characters are the people and animals in a story. The main character shows up the most and has the problem. Practice finding who the story is about in the English Lab at doodlebeez.com. See you next time!

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