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Create Your Own Character
2 3 Pre & Primary Essentials Resources Worksheets English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas Creating Literature Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating Creating Texts 2 Pages

Create Your Own Character

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.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot and by adding prepositional phrases to improve descriptions.
  • We are learning to tell known stories from different points of view, construct sequels and imaginative reconstructions of stories and poetry.
  • We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive multimodal texts using text structures, language and grammatical features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
  • We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using text structures and language features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
  • We are learning to create and edit imaginative texts by using or adapting language features, characters, settings and plot structures, e.g. changing the setting, revising an ending.
  • We are learning to create imaginative texts based on familiar characters, settings and events from various cultures drawing from and innovating on texts we have read, e.g. revising an ending.

Curriculum alignment

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 EN2-2A old Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language EN1-3A old Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions EN2-UARL-01 new Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts EN2-HANDW-02 new Uses digital technologies to create texts EN2-SPELL-01 new Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts 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-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-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-OLC-01 new Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting EN1-HANDW-01 new Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts 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-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
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 VCELT229 Build on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot VCELT228 Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts VCELY233 Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs VCELY231 Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure 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

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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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