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How to Write About Fictional Characters

How to Write About Fictional Characters is a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation (with 2 worksheets) which, as with all our PowerPoints, can be tweaked, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs. This Year 5/6 resource includes a range of tasks and activities designed to help pupils write about fictional characters in detail.

The PowerPoint contains:

- A study of how Charles Dickens presents the character of Scrooge in the opening pages of 'A Christmas Carol'.

- Exploring how writers convey character through the use of description, dialogue and action.

- Studying the ingredients of effective character creation.

- Expanding upon quotations - commenting on word choices and their effects.

- A writing frame to help children produce a structured and detailed paragraph about a character.

To preview the Year 5 / Year 6 resource 'How to Write About Fictional Characters', click on the images.

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