Perfect for home learning, as an exercise before an independent writing task, and as a way to challenge more able learners in lower year groups, the worksheets are bright and engaging, using eye-catching images to fire children’s imaginations, and giving them the opportunity to apply their knowledge in creative writing activities.ģ | Describing Goldilocks KS1 lesson plan Each task – understand, explain, challenge, test, apply – explores how ‘showing’, not telling, what a character is like can add impact to their writing. This set of worksheets allows KS2 children to think about how to create strong, convincing characters. The pack then includes accompanying resources and includes a PowerPoint, teacher notes, book extracts in print and as audiobook clips, illustrations and author quotes for a working wall display, story planning sheets and story writing sheets.Ģ | Creating characters KS2 challenge mat This resources pack is designed to be used with episode two of the Author In Your Classroom podcast, a virtual ‘author visit’ you can share with children whenever you like, absolutely free!
Help KS2 children to create vibrant, believable, complex characters with expert advice from Sam Copeland, author of the ‘Charlie McGuffin’ series of books, in which the eponymous hero changes into random animals when he gets stressed. 1 | Creating characters with Sam Copeland podcast and resources That’s where these resources will come in handy. There are many parts of the National Curriculum that might require a quick Google refresher each time it comes to teaching it (which ones are causal conjunctions again?), but thankfully, describing people is something that comes to us fairly naturally in childhood.ĭoes he look like one of my teachers in the 90s?īut, there is of course more to great character descriptions than simply being able to describe what a person looks like.
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