Help students explore how language can be used to present characters in different ways with this set of character emotion wheel templates.
Character Emotion Wheel Resource for Primary Literacy
This Character Emotion Wheel resource is designed to support primary students in developing strong reading comprehension and character analysis skills. It helps students identify how authors use language to show emotions, personality traits and setting details. The activity aligns with English curriculum outcomes focused on discussing characters and settings and understanding how language choices influence meaning.
By using this set of Character Emotion wheels you are helping your student to:
- learn new vocabulary for describing feelings
- identify textual evidence to support their ideas
- recognise how authors reveal characters through language
- compare different characters across a range of texts
- strengthen narrative writing through strong modelling
This resource can be used in guided reading, whole‑class lessons or as an independent literacy activity.
Using Character Emotion Wheels in Literacy
The pack of character emotion wheels provides both ready‑made templates for everyday characters and a blank wheel that can be used with any book. Perfect for guided reading, whole‑class modelling or independent tasks, these tools help students build vocabulary and deepen their understanding of how authors reveal character and setting.
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Use the dropdown menu to choose between the easy to print PDF version or the editable Google Slide version where you can edit the emotions or even the characters to make it more suitable to your book character lesson plans.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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