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Lesson 4: Exploring Fairy Tale Characters
60 minutes | Suitable for Grades: 1 - 2A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the methods authors use to create a character.
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Lesson Plan
Tuning In
- Read the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk, to the students. Afterwards, ask the students to suggest some words that could be used to describe the character of Jack. Record these as a mind map on the board.
Teacher Instruction
- Explain the role of characters in narrative texts, as outlined on slide 5 of the Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint. Introduce the terms ‘appearance’, ‘personality’ and ‘feelings’ and read through the definitions of these on slide 6.
- Display and discuss slides 7-9. Encourage the students to suggest additional questions that could be asked when exploring the appearance, personality and feelings of a narrative character.
Guided/Independent Learning
- Revisit the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Explain to the students that they are going to work together as a class to create a character description for the character of Jack.
- Display the Exploring Characters Posters and read through the vocabulary examples used for appearance, personality and feelings. Ask the students whether any of the vocabulary used on the posters could be applied to the character of Jack. Encourage the students to provide reasons for their responses e.g. Jack was curious because he wanted to see what was at the end of the beanstalk.
- Project the poster of Jack from the Fairy Tale Character Posters on the board. Around the poster, record the students’ ideas about Jack’s appearance, personality and feelings. Use different coloured markers to reflect the different aspects of Jack’s character e.g. blue for appearance, green for personality and red for feelings.
Wrapping Up
- View the sample responses on slides 11-13. Compare the ideas presented with those suggested by the students.
Differentiation
Extending Students
- Encourage more capable students to share their ideas during the guided learning activity.
Supporting Students
- Gently guide and support less confident students to share their ideas during the guided learning activity.
Assessment Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
- used strategic whole class or individual questioning
- observed student participation during learning activities
- recorded student progress on a checklist
- annotated student work samples
- collected and reviewed student work samples
- facilitated whole class or peer feedback sessions
- encouraged student self-reflection
- administered formal assessment tasks.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-7B
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
- EN1-8B
Recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
- EN1-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELT208
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELT1581
Discuss how authors create characters using language and imagesElaborationsidentifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts (Skills: Literacy, Cr...
- ACELT1584
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different textsElaborationsexamining different types of literature including traditional tales, humorous stories and poetry (...
- ACELT1591
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different waysElaborationsdescribing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (count...
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EnglishWritingText TypesImaginative WritingCharactersNarrative WritingFairy Tales
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