Mix and Match Character and Setting Cards can be incorporated into daily routines or utilised during specific writing-focused sessions. With 60+ characters and setting cards, this resource promotes collaboration, critical thinking and creativity while making the learning process of writing narratives enjoyable and interactive. By incorporating these cards into your classroom, you'll be nurturing a generation of young writers and storytellers.
Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
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
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Innovate on familiar texts through play
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
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images