Characters Teaching Resources
A collection of resources to help students engage with characters in texts that they read. Activities include character profile, comprehension tasks, unit plans, classroom literacy posters, Fakebook pages, hands on activities. This collection also includes blogs with inspiring ideas to help excite your students to study literacy.
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Reading Response Character Report – Template
A comprehension template for students to write a character report about the text they have been reading.
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Direct and Indirect Characterisation
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterisation.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Fairy Tale Setting and Book Characters Classroom Display
Teach fairy tales and narrative structure with a printable fairy tale setting poster and book characters for a classroom display.
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Movie Versus Book Popcorn and Drink Review - Template
Templates that students can compare and review a movie and a book with the same title, then construct them into a 3D popcorn box and movie drink cup.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
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Detailed Character Profile Worksheet
A worksheet for students to use when building a character for a story.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Creating a Fairy Tale Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a character for a fairy tale.
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Exploring Fairy Tale Characters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the methods authors use to create a character.