A creative, hands-on reading comprehension activity that encourages students to look beyond the surface and explore what a character is really thinking and feeling.
Students create an interactive foldable heart to investigate the difference between what a character shows others and what lies beneath. They explore a character's hopes, fears, important memories, motivations and hidden thoughts, using evidence from the text to support their ideas.
This engaging activity encourages deeper thinking, inference and meaningful discussion about character development.
Students will:
Identify what a character shows on the outside and what they may be feeling on the inside.
Infer thoughts, feelings and motivations using clues from the text.
Explore a character's hopes, fears, memories and values.
Support their interpretations with evidence from the text.
Explain how a character's internal feelings influence their actions.
Reflect on their understanding of a character through deeper-thinking questions.
What's included:
Learning Intention and Success Criteria
Step-by-step activity instructions
Completed worked example
Sentence starters to support student responses
Coloured outside and inside heart templates
Printable evidence tags
Thinking Deeper comprehension and reflection questions
Black-and-white, printer-friendly activity pages
9-page printable PDF digital download.
Perfect for reading groups, literature studies, independent comprehension activities and whole-class character analysis.
Suitable for use with a wide range of narrative texts – no specific book required.
A creative, hands-on reading comprehension activity that encourages students to look beyond the surface and explore what a character is really thinking and feeling.
Students create an interactive foldable heart to investigate the difference between what a character shows others and what lies beneath. They explore a character's hopes, fears, important memories, motivations and hidden thoughts, using evidence from the text to support their ideas.
This engaging activity encourages deeper thinking, inference and meaningful discussion about character development.
Students will:
Identify what a character shows on the outside and what they may be feeling on the inside.
Infer thoughts, feelings and motivations using clues from the text.
Explore a character's hopes, fears, memories and values.
Support their interpretations with evidence from the text.
Explain how a character's internal feelings influence their actions.
Reflect on their understanding of a character through deeper-thinking questions.
What's included:
Learning Intention and Success Criteria
Step-by-step activity instructions
Completed worked example
Sentence starters to support student responses
Coloured outside and inside heart templates
Printable evidence tags
Thinking Deeper comprehension and reflection questions
Black-and-white, printer-friendly activity pages
9-page printable PDF digital download.
Perfect for reading groups, literature studies, independent comprehension activities and whole-class character analysis.
Suitable for use with a wide range of narrative texts – no specific book required.
