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English Unit: Character Development in Narratives

English Unit: Character Development in Narratives
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Description

This unit provides a great overview of the narrative strategy ‘show don’t tell’, encouraging the use of descriptive language to describe the characters, scenery and plot, whereby the reader may use their inferencing skills to comprehend the narrative.

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

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

AC9E3LE05 9

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

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

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

ACELT1791 8.4

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of 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

EN2-OLC-01 new

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

EN2-RECOM-01 new

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

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

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

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

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