Spin A Character and Setting
A fun and engaging activity for students to explore how words and images can come together to create wild and fantastic characters and settings.
Students cut out these spinners to create their own unique characters and settings. You can print one large copy to use with the class or print individual copies for students.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand how authors develop characters in texts.
- We are learning to understand how authors develop characters, settings and events in a variety of texts.
- We are learning to recognise characteristics of different types of texts, e.g. traditional beginnings and endings of fairy tales and rhyme in poetry.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LE01
9
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9EFLE03
9
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
ACELT1581
8.4
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images
EN1-11D
old
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
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
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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