teaching resource

Character or Not? - Colouring Worksheet

Updated: 11 Jun 2023

Explore the difference between characters and non-characters with this colouring worksheet.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: F - 1
Differentiated: Yes

Curriculum

VC2EFLE03

Recognise a range of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings <ul> <li>recognising that stories often have similar beginnings, for example ‘Once upon a time …’ and ‘A long, long time ago …’ in fairytales and ‘A girl called Amira …’ or similar to introduce a character in a storybook</li> <li>identifying how stories are told in poetry</li> <li>identifying typical features of fairytales, such as princes and princesses or the moral of the story</li> </ul>
VC2E1LE03

Discuss plots, characters and settings through a range of literary texts <ul> <li>recognising similar characters and settings in a range of literary texts, for example traditional tales, narrative poems and fables</li> <li>discussing whether features of settings, including time (year, season) and place (country or city), are realistic or imagined</li> <li>discussing how plots develop, including beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and how it is solved (resolution)</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Character or Not? - Colouring Worksheet

Updated: 11 Jun 2023

Explore the difference between characters and non-characters with this colouring worksheet.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: F - 1
Differentiated: Yes

Explore the difference between characters and non-characters with this colouring worksheet.

Identifying Story Characters

One of the first story elements we teach to our littlest learners is characters. Characters can be people, animals, magical creatures or personified objects.

This colouring worksheet has been designed to help your students differentiate between story characters and non-characters. Two differentiated versions of this worksheet have been provided. The differences between the two versions are outlined below:

Worksheet 1 – Students colour the characters blue and the non-characters red.
Worksheet 2 – Students identify the non-characters, then colour-code the characters by type. Students colour the people orange, the animals yellow, the non-living objects green, and the magic creatures blue.

Differentiate This Story Characters Worksheet

This resource looks deceptively simple at first glance… but why not shake things up a little?

Challenge your more capable students by having them write a short story about one of the characters from the worksheet. Students could publish their work using one of Teach Starter’s narrative booklet templates.

Support your less-confident students by engaging in a review of what characters are before having them attempt the worksheet. We have a great set of narrative characters teaching slides for this very purpose!

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to select between the editable Google Slides or the easy-print PDF version of this resource.

As this download contains an answer sheet, we recommend printing one copy of the resource, then removing the answer sheet before making student copies.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a Teach Starter collaborator.

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Curriculum

VC2EFLE03

Recognise a range of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings <ul> <li>recognising that stories often have similar beginnings, for example ‘Once upon a time …’ and ‘A long, long time ago …’ in fairytales and ‘A girl called Amira …’ or similar to introduce a character in a storybook</li> <li>identifying how stories are told in poetry</li> <li>identifying typical features of fairytales, such as princes and princesses or the moral of the story</li> </ul>
VC2E1LE03

Discuss plots, characters and settings through a range of literary texts <ul> <li>recognising similar characters and settings in a range of literary texts, for example traditional tales, narrative poems and fables</li> <li>discussing whether features of settings, including time (year, season) and place (country or city), are realistic or imagined</li> <li>discussing how plots develop, including beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and how it is solved (resolution)</li> </ul>

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