Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3

Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3

This ‘Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3’ teaching resource includes a range of teaching activities designed to help pupils create characters with depth and believability. Content includes:

• A study of how Dickens presents Magwitch in the opening pages of Great Expectations
• Exploring how writers convey character through the use of description, dialogue and action
• Examining the key ingredients of effective character creation
• A guide to building a character profile - with exemplar materials
• How to transform a character profile into a piece of prose and a convincing character
• A model text to help students through the process
• Four accompanying worksheets

As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.