Chapter 2

English

Character

Creative Writing

Drama

Guided Reading

Story

English

In this section you will find some great ideas which aim to develop children’s speaking and listening, reading and writing. Many are suitable for use in a cross-curricular way, and there are lots of practical and exciting concepts to help engage pupils in English/Literacy lessons.

The activities are arranged in five categories

  1. Character
  2. Creative Writing
  3. Drama
  4. Guided Reading
  5. Story

Character

Character Pie

Character Pie is a versatile activity that helps children to build characters for their writing which are complex and believable. It can also be used to analyse existing story characters.

Suitable for

KS1, KS2

Aims
  • To develop and refine character ideas ...

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