Character Clues
This worksheet set helps students identify and understand how characters feel during a story. Through visual cues, story events and character behaviour, students build empathy and emotional literacy. As they progress, students learn to infer feelings based on what characters say and do, developing deeper comprehension and connection to texts.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others in different environments.
- We are learning to use appropriate voice levels, body language, gestures and eye contact when speaking and listening to others.
- We are learning to deliver short oral presentations to peers.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, correct posture and pencil grip.
- We are learning to structure and make short presentations on familiar topics.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to form all upper and lower-case letters correctly.
- We are learning to structure, rehearse and present short oral presentations on new and familiar topics.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and begin to analyse texts by drawing on our knowledge.
- We are learning to write upper and lower-case unjoined letters and sentences legibly using correct pencil grip and posture.
- We are learning to use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others in different environments and use appropriate voice levels, body language, gestures and eye contact when speaking and listening to others.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to make meaning.
- We are learning to create and deliver short oral presentations to peers.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, functional posture and pencil grip.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to create and deliver short oral and multimodal presentations to peers, which include an opening, middle and concluding statement, appropriate vocabulary, gestures, volume and pace.
- We are learning to write words using unjoined lower case and upper case letters using functional pencil grip.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E2LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
AC9E2LY08
9
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
AC9E2LY07
9
Create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace
AC9E1LY08
9
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
AC9E1LY07
9
Create and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations on personal and learnt topics, which include an opening, middle and concluding statement; some topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate gesture, volume and pace
AC9E1LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9EFLY08
9
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
AC9EFLY07
9
Create and deliver short spoken texts to report ideas and events to peers, using features of voice such as appropriate volume
AC9EFLY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
AC9EFLY02
9
Interact in informal and structured situations by listening while others speak and using features of voice including volume levels
ACELY1784
8.4
Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact
ACELY1673
8.4
Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
ACELY1646
8.4
Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations
ACELY1647
8.4
Deliver short oral presentations to peers
ACELY1650
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ACELY1653
8.4
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
ACELY1657
8.4
Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements
ACELY1660
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
ACELY1663
8.4
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
ACELY1667
8.4
Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics
ACELY1670
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
ENe-1A
old
Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction
ENe-3A
old
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-3A
old
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-6B
old
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken 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
ENE-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
ENE-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
EN1-HANDW-01
new
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
EN1-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
EN1-REFLU-01
new
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
ENE-HANDW-01
new
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
VCELY211
Make short presentations, speaking clearly and using appropriate voice and pace, and using some introduced text structures and language
VCELY153
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
VCELY162
Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case
VCELY174
Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak
VCELY175
Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact
VCELY186
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
VCELY196
Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters
VCELY245
Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately, and using supportive props
VCELY232
Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position
VCELY222
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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