This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author to illustrate their importance to the narrative.

The class can explain why characters are important to the narrative structure of a story and suggest how other characters might change the sequence of events.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author to illustrate their importance to the narrative

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author to show how they are important to the sequence and development of the narrative plot.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences to describe story characters using conjunctions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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