KS2 Classroom Display - Creating Characters

In KS2, pupils are taught to create characters that could be used in their own writing. This display pack includes a variety of ways that characters could be developed when writing, with examples displayed on posters and challenge activities to develop pupils writing. The posters could be used to explore techniques that could be used when creating characters in their own writing or when investigating author’s techniques in books that they are reading independently or as a class.

The posters could be used as part of a working wall, encouraging pupils to answer the challenge questions and add examples of ways that characters have been developed that they have seen in books that they are reading or have used in their own writing.

Which techniques for creating characters are included in this resource?

• Physical description
• Characteristics
• Finding the character's voice
• Character's actions
• Family and friends
• Likes and dislikes
• Introducing the character
• Revealing information about characters
• Character’s backstory

National Curriculum programme of study links

Year 3/4 writing – composition

• Pupils should be taught to draft and write by, in narratives, creating settings, character and plot

This resource is part of the Classroom Display collection.
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• 9 x creating characters posters
• teacher notes