Build Your Story

Build Your Story

This planning worksheet helps students bring together everything they have learned about character and setting. With guided prompts and checklists, students invent an original character and setting by considering personality traits, dialogue style, mood and sensory details. Drawing spaces and sentence scaffolds support creativity and structure. Perfect as a pre-writing activity to prepare for narrative composition.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to compare characters and settings in different texts and identify the verb groups used to convey actions, emotions and dialogue.
  • We are learning to identify features, such as characters and settings, of different literary texts and give reasons for personal preferences.
  • We are learning to identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain and give reasons for personal preferences.
  • We are learning to discuss characters and settings in different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways.

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