Read a book with your child and then encourage them to take on the role of the character through dress up and play. Prompt them to talk or write about the decisions that went into selecting and recreating that character.
Link: Daily Remote Learning Tip-Step Inside a Book
Choose a book with strong characters to review with your child. Encourage them to talk about the qualities and traits of the characters. Help to organise their thoughts with a graphic organiser.
Link: Daily Remote Learning Tip-Understanding Characters Through Writing and Drawing
Encourage children to share their thinking about reading in creative ways. Guide them with general prompts in order to have them think about themes, characters, genre, and connection to their own life, the world, and other texts.
Link: Daily Remote Learning Tip-Respond to Texts to Explore Meaning
In this Unit of Work, students will investigate a range of picture storybooks written by Mem Fox and create a range of artistic murals to represent their understandings of the text as well as their favourite pages and characters from the texts. After reading each text, students will be given the opportunity to discuss what they think of the text and how it relates to their own feelings and emotions about familiar experiences and memories. Students will also participate in the discovery of how movement and dance is related to a text and the different ways in which they can express their ideas and interpretations of a text.
Discussing how authors create characters using language and images comes up regularly in the Australian curriculum. This resource provides a range of fun activities for teachers to use to help their students gain a greater understanding of how authors create and build up a character.
Use this fun interactive activity to help students analyse characters in any book and create scrapbook pages they can print.