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.
Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools
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
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts
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
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts
Build on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot
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
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
Use the ‘How to Write a Diary Tale’ resource to use your character in your own fairy tale story.