Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequences.
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discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
Recognise that the point of view in a literary text influences how readers interpret and respond to events and characters
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
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
Identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style
Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts
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
Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses
Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways
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
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other
Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses
Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text