Activities in this teaching pack include a template for core and extension ability levels to compose and present a new scene for a story about family life inventing a new character that can interact with other characters from a story by a significant author and a worksheet for support ability levels to write some sentences for a story about family life that incorporate some new characters.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to invent and describe new characters that could appear in a story about family life by a significant author.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life, identify the meanings and spellings of confusing words and use the perfect form of verbs to indicate timing. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.