Novel Study – Character Map Worksheet

Use this resource in the classroom when helping students study characters in a class novel.

This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to analyse the characteristics and motives of the protagonist and antagonist in a novel, as well as one supporting character.

Students will have the opportunity to comment on the following features of each character:

• physical features
• personality traits
• interactions between the protagonist and antagonist
• the motivations of the antagonist
• resolutions the protagonist has been involved in
• ways the supporting character has progressed the storyline.

Read more about this exciting resource in the blog Fun with Literature: Novel Study Activities for Any Story.

Resource Pack This resource is part of the Novel Study Activity Resource Pack. Download this resource and 13 other resources in the complete pack. View the pack...

Australian Curriculum alignment

• English > Year 4 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1603

  Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of viewElaborationssharing and discussing students’ own and others’ understanding of the effects of particu...

• English > Year 4 > Literature > Examining literature > ACELT1605

  Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborat...

• English > Year 4 > Literacy > Interpreting, analysing, evaluating > ACELY1690

  Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsdescribing the language which authors use to create imaginary worlds; ...

• English > Year 5 > Literature > Literature and context > ACELT1608

  Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contextsElaborationsdescribing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, sy...

• English > Year 5 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1609

  Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of othersElaborationsposing and discussing questions, such as ‘Should this...

• English > Year 5 > Literature > Examining literature > ACELT1610

  Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responsesElaborationsidentifying the narrative voice (the per...

• English > Year 5 > Literacy > Interpreting, analysing, evaluating > ACELY1701

  Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsexplaining how the features o...

• English > Year 6 > Literature > Literature and context > ACELT1613

  Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contextsElaborationsrecognising the...

• English > Year 6 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1614

  Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plotsElaborationsexploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles, for example comparing...

• English > Year 4 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1604

  Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary textsElaborationsexamining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviou...

• English > Year 4 > Literacy > Interpreting, analysing, evaluating > ACELY1691

  Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewingElabora...

• English > Year 5 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1795

  Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiencesElaborationsorally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretatio...

• English > Year 6 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1615

  Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different textsElaborationsnoting how degrees of possibility are o...

• English > Year 4 > Literacy > Interpreting, analysing, evaluating > ACELY1692

  Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between ...

• English > Year 6 > Literacy > Interpreting, analysing, evaluating > ACELY1801

  Analyse strategies authors use to influence readersElaborationsidentify how authors use language to position the reader and give reasons (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)(View this to...

Find more resources for these topics

WorksheetsResponding to Literature