Teaching Resource
Setting Profile Worksheet
A worksheet for students to use when creating a setting for a story.
Use this teaching resource to help your students create a setting to use in their narrative writing. Alternatively, students could use the worksheet to describe a setting from a narrative they have read.
The worksheet covers the following aspects of narrative setting:
- location (where)
- time (when)
- inhabitants (who)
- motivation (why).
NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
- EN3-7C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELT327
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELT1612
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experiencedElaborationsusing texts with computer-based graphics, animation and 2D qualities, consider how and why par...
- ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...

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