A creative, hands-on reading activity that helps students explore how characters grow and change throughout a story.
Students create a foldable accordion to represent a character's journey, identifying important events, changes in thoughts and feelings, and turning points that influence their development.
Using evidence from the text, students explain how and why a character changes, before reflecting on the themes and messages revealed through their journey.
Students will:
identify important events in a character's journey
describe changes in a character's thoughts, feelings and behaviour
recognise significant turning points
support their ideas with evidence from the text
explain how events influence character development
connect a character's journey to themes and messages
What's included:
Learning Intention and Success Criteria
Step-by-step activity instructions
Completed accordion worked example
Sentence starters to support student responses
Coloured accordion templates
Black-and-white, printer-friendly templates
Reflection and analysis questions
Student checklist and extension challenges
6-page teaching resource plus a separate 2-page printable BLM (8 pages total).
Suitable for reading groups, literature studies, independent comprehension tasks and whole-class reading activities.
Use with your own narrative texts – no specific book required.
A creative, hands-on reading activity that helps students explore how characters grow and change throughout a story.
Students create a foldable accordion to represent a character's journey, identifying important events, changes in thoughts and feelings, and turning points that influence their development.
Using evidence from the text, students explain how and why a character changes, before reflecting on the themes and messages revealed through their journey.
Students will:
identify important events in a character's journey
describe changes in a character's thoughts, feelings and behaviour
recognise significant turning points
support their ideas with evidence from the text
explain how events influence character development
connect a character's journey to themes and messages
What's included:
Learning Intention and Success Criteria
Step-by-step activity instructions
Completed accordion worked example
Sentence starters to support student responses
Coloured accordion templates
Black-and-white, printer-friendly templates
Reflection and analysis questions
Student checklist and extension challenges
6-page teaching resource plus a separate 2-page printable BLM (8 pages total).
Suitable for reading groups, literature studies, independent comprehension tasks and whole-class reading activities.
Use with your own narrative texts – no specific book required.
