Creating Narrative Characters – Year 1
Creating Narrative Characters – Year 1
Creating Narrative Characters helps Year 1 students understand how authors and illustrators reveal a character through physical appearance, personality, actions, thoughts, dialogue, words and pictures.
The sequence begins with visual references and explicit teaching. Students then sort and infer traits, distinguish feelings from characteristics, interpret character clues, connect words with illustrations, plan profiles and settings, and create an original narrative character. Colour games and collaborative activities provide oral-language practice, while differentiated pages support independent work and assessment.
What’s Included
- 21-slide editable presentation
- 22-slide editable quiz with 10 questions and answer or feedback slides
- 31-page unit plan PDF
- Character Traits classroom display
- Personality Trait Word Bank and Character Creator reference cards
- Act It Out! game with character cards
- Spin a Character, Spin a Setting and Spin and Sketch resources
- Crazy Character Builder game and drawing mat
- Three-page My Character Scrapbook
- Eight scaffolded character worksheets
- Five matching red answer pages
- Two-page Create a Narrative Character assessment
- Five-level marking rubric
- 74-page combined Preview PDF
Learning Focus
- Recognise physical and personality traits
- Find character evidence in actions, thoughts, dialogue, words and pictures
- Distinguish feelings from traits
- Infer traits from clues
- Explain how words and illustrations work together
- Link characters, settings, wants and problems
- Plan and create an original narrative character
Classroom Use
Use the presentation for explicit teaching, displays and cards for literacy support, games for partner and small-group practice, worksheets for guided or independent work, and the assessment and rubric for a final character-creation task.
File Details
PDF, PPTX and JPEG formats. Includes a 31-page unit plan, 21-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz. Five matching answer pages are included.
Please note: This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase permits use in one classroom or household. The files may not be resold, redistributed, publicly posted or shared with other users.