Exploring characterisation in 'Greenling'
I can compare characterisation within a text.
Exploring characterisation in 'Greenling'
I can compare characterisation within a text.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A character's body language can give clues about what they are thinking or feeling.
- Body language is used in ‘Greenling’ to convey the characterisation of the Barleycorns and the Greenling.
- Understanding a character's motives helps us to understand the story and empathise with the characters.
- A reader’s own experiences can also support inferring a character’s motives.
Keywords
Character traits - Character traits are the special qualities that make a character in a story unique and interesting.
Characterisation - Characterisation is the way an author and illustrator describes and develops the personalities and traits of the characters in a story.
Body language - Body language is the way people communicate their thoughts, feelings, and emotions through their movements and gestures without using words.
Inference - Inference means to use clues from within the text to draw conclusions.
Motives - Motives refer to a person’s reasons for doing something.
Common misconception
Pupils may have difficulty understanding characterisation through body language.
Play a game where children use body language to convey different feelings and thoughts and their partner needs to guess.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2015 Templar Publishing edition of ‘Greenling’ written and illustrated by Levi Pinfold, for this lesson.
Licence
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
special qualities that make a character in a story unique
how characters communicate without words, using movements and gestures
a person’s reasons for doing something
