The wondrous WHO of your story
Nearly every story needs a WHO – a character or characters who have adventures, solve problems, and who guide readers through a story. Here’s everything you need to start creating engaging, interesting characters for your stories!
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Meet the creators
01:16 What makes an interesting character?
03:08 What does your character want and what is stopping them?
05:25 Questions we can ask about our characters
06:07 Final words of advice
06:42 Here's what we've learned
Learning Intentions
1. Learning about story characters traits and how we can discover these.
2. Learning about descriptive words that give a character personality.
3. Exploring ways in which creating characters can help shape stories.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1. Experimented with different features and traits of story characters.
2. Have the beginnings of a character that can be used in a story.
Discussion Questions
PRE-VIDEO:
- Do you have a favourite story character? Why is that character your favourite? What do you like about them?
- Think about your favourite person in the real world.
- How would you describe them?
- What words can you think of to describe their PERSONALITY?
POST VIDEO:
- According to Mat and Melissa, what makes a good story character? What sort of things do YOU think makes a good story character?
- Why is it important to think about the characters in your story? What sorts of things might you want to know about them when you’re writing your story?
- Mat described how he asked his characters questions to get to know them better. Do you remember some of those questions?
- Melissa talks about using character brainstorms as a tool to find out things about her character’s personality. Do you remember what sort of things she said she jots down?
Curriculum Links
ENGLISH Year 5-6
Language:
● Text structure and organisation: AC9E5LA03, AC9E6LA03, AC9E5LA04,
Literature:
● Creating literature: AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LE05
Literacy:
● Analysing, interpreting and evaluating: AC9E5LY03, AC9E6LY03, AC9E5LY05,
AC9E6Y05
● Creating texts: AC9E5LY06, AC9E6LY06
LITERACY
Writing:
● Creating texts: Crafting ideas Level 7-8
Reading and Viewing:
● Understanding texts: Comprehension Level 7-8
CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING
Generating:
● Create possibilities: Level 4
Reflecting
● Transfer knowledge: Level 4
CREATORS
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