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Create Your Own Character

Create Your Own Character
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Description

Use the template provided to assist you in visualising your perfect fairy tale character. Brainstorm your character’s physical and personality traits, then draw your fairy tale character. Encourage students to share their character ideas before illustrating their character. You may wish to display the illustrations in your classroom.

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9E2LE05 9

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

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

ACELT1593 8.4

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

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

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

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

EN1-3A old

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

EN2-2A old

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

EN1-OLC-01 new

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

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

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

EN1-CWT-01 new

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

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-SPELL-01 new

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

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

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

EN1-HANDW-01 new

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

EN2-OLC-01 new

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

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

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-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-SPELL-01 new

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

EN2-HANDW-02 new

Uses digital technologies to create texts

EN2-UARL-01 new

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

VCELT228

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

VCELT229

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

VCELY230

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

VCELY231

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

VCELY233

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

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

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Use the ‘How to Write a Diary Tale’ resource to use your character in your own fairy tale story.

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