A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
Encourage your students to make their characters talk, think, feel and move.
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Bring Your Characters To Life Poster
Updated: 02 Aug 2016
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 5
Curriculum
ACELT1581
Discuss how authors create characters using language and imagesElaborationsidentifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts (Skills: Literacy, Cr...
ACELA1469
Identify visual representations of charactersâ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying wordsElaborationscomparing two versions o...
ACELT1591
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different waysElaborationsdescribing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (count...
ACELA1477
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forcefulElaborationsexploring how modal verbs, for example 'must', 'might',' or 'could' indicate degrees of probability or obligation (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Crea...
ACELT1594
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authorsâ reasonsElaborationsreading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/young people are the central character...
ACELT1599
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrativeElaborationsidentifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (âin the middle of a va...
ACELT1601
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from studentsâ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angleElaborationsdrawing on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for insp...
ACELT1791
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogueElaborationscreating visual and multimodal texts based on Aboriginal and Torres ...
ACELY1675
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of viewElaborationsdiscussing how a text presents the point of view of the main character, and speculating on what other characters might think or feel (Skills: Literacy, Critical an...
ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readersâ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a c...
ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...
ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...
ACELT1798
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authorsElaborationsdrawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative ...
ACELY1704
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationsusing research from print and digital resources t...
ACELT1618
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative waysElaborationscreating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of nar...
EN1-7B
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-8B
Recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
EN2-10C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
EN3-1A
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
VCELA215
Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words
VCELT253
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
VCELY255
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
VCELT264
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
VCELT265
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
VCELA272
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
VCELT274
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
VCELT284
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
VCELY299
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
VCELY329
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
VCELT356
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways
AC9E1LE01
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9E2LA08
Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
AC9E2LE03
Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
AC9E3LA02
Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
AC9E3LE01
Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9E3LE03
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
AC9E3LE05
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
AC9E3LY01
Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
AC9E4LE03
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
AC9E4LE05
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
AC9E4LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
AC9E5LE05
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
AC9E5LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and pu
AC9E6LE05
Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices
Curriculum
ACELT1581
Discuss how authors create characters using language and imagesElaborationsidentifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts (Skills: Literacy, Cr...
ACELA1469
Identify visual representations of charactersâ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying wordsElaborationscomparing two versions o...
ACELT1591
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different waysElaborationsdescribing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (count...
ACELA1477
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forcefulElaborationsexploring how modal verbs, for example 'must', 'might',' or 'could' indicate degrees of probability or obligation (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Crea...
ACELT1594
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authorsâ reasonsElaborationsreading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/young people are the central character...
ACELT1599
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrativeElaborationsidentifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (âin the middle of a va...
ACELT1601
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from studentsâ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angleElaborationsdrawing on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for insp...
ACELT1791
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogueElaborationscreating visual and multimodal texts based on Aboriginal and Torres ...
ACELY1675
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of viewElaborationsdiscussing how a text presents the point of view of the main character, and speculating on what other characters might think or feel (Skills: Literacy, Critical an...
ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readersâ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a c...
ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...
ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...
ACELT1798
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authorsElaborationsdrawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative ...
ACELY1704
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationsusing research from print and digital resources t...
ACELT1618
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative waysElaborationscreating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of nar...
EN1-7B
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-8B
Recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
EN2-10C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
EN3-1A
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
VCELA215
Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words
VCELT253
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
VCELY255
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
VCELT264
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
VCELT265
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
VCELA272
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
VCELT274
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
VCELT284
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
VCELY299
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
VCELY329
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
VCELT356
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways
AC9E1LE01
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9E2LA08
Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
AC9E2LE03
Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
AC9E3LA02
Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
AC9E3LE01
Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9E3LE03
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
AC9E3LE05
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
AC9E3LY01
Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
AC9E4LE03
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
AC9E4LE05
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
AC9E4LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
AC9E5LE05
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
AC9E5LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and pu
AC9E6LE05
Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices
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