Character Creator Cards

English Examining Literature Creating Literature Creating Texts

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Description

In this activity, students complete a writing prompt based on one of the set’s character cards. This set is built around fantasy narratives. Cards can be drawn at random or selected by the student.

Younger students can list adjectives for each character, while older students can complete the accompanying character cards. There are enough cards that you can do this as a class activity or break it into smaller groups for fast finishers or literacy rotations.

Suitable for

Fast Finishers
Relief Teachers

Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work
Class Activity

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E4LE03 9

discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions

AC9E2LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools

AC9E4LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

AC9E2LE03 9

Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways

AC9E5LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

AC9E2LY06 9

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words

AC9E3LE05 9

Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts

AC9E3LE03 9

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

AC9E5LY06 9

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 punctuation including dialogue punctuation

AC9E6LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

AC9E6LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices

ACELT1601 8.4

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

ACELT1591 8.4

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

ACELT1605 8.4

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

ACELT1593 8.4

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

ACELT1794 8.4

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

ACELT1833 8.4

Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot

ACELY1671 8.4

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

ACELT1599 8.4

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

ACELT1612 8.4

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

ACELY1714 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

ACELT1800 8.4

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice

ACELY1704 8.4

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

EN2-10C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

EN3-7C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN2-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-3A old

Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

EN1-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

EN2-UARL-01 new

Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts

EN1-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts

EN3-UARL-02 new

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

EN1-HANDW-01 new

Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN2-HANDW-02 new

Uses digital technologies to create texts

EN2-SPELL-01 new

Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts

EN2-CWT-03 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-02 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN3-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts

VCELT356

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways

VCELT355

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts

VCELY332

Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

VCELY330

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features

VCELY358

VCELY359

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

VCELY361

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

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

VCELT316

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

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

VCELT327

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

VCELT328

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

VCELY233

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

VCELY231

Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

VCELY230

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

VCELT297

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

VCELT229

Build on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot

VCELT228

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

VCELY289

Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other

VCELT284

Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques

VCELT219

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

VCELT298

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Once they have come up with some descriptions of the characters on the cards, they can share the stories with a partner, and even combine their characters into a narrative that they come up with.

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