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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Exploring Characters Posters
A set of 4 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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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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Character Traits Template
A graphic template to record characters traits.
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Character Development - Fakebook Page Template
An editable Fakebook template for students to develop profiles for characters used in their writing.
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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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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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What's At Stake Poster
A poster to display in your classroom when teaching students how to build characters for a story.
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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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Character Profile Template
A template to use when exploring the personality, appearance, feelings and actions of a character from a narrative.
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Little Red Riding Hood Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale.
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Hansel and Gretel Character Profile Worksheets
A set of character profile worksheets using the Hansel and Gretel Fairy Tale.
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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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Direct and Indirect Characterisation
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterisation.
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Fairy Tale Character Brainstorming Sheets
Worksheets for some of the most significant and popular fairy tale characters.
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25 Fairy Tale Character Posters
Set of 25 posters featuring the most significant and popular fairy tale characters.
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Character Building Worksheet
A worksheet for students to draw a provided character as well as make their own.
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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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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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Exploring Fairy Tale Characters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the methods authors use to create a character.
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Exploring Book Characters in the Classroom
Exploring book characters with your students is a crucial element of understanding the narrative text type! Here are some of our favourite stories, activities and teaching resources about book characters.