Activities in this teaching pack include a template to structure and format a report describing one of the characters from a story with a familiar setting to illustrate their appearance, behaviour and explain why they are important to the narrative sequence of events,.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select vocabulary to use when composing a report to describe a character from a story.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.