Your writing task this week is to write a description of your favourite character from a book, film or TV show (make sure your character is appropriate for school).

Choose a character you know a lot about and that you feel you would be able to write a detailed description about.

• Complete the table first. Add in as many adjectives you can to describe the character’s appearance and personality, try to include interesting and more complex words to engage the reader. Think about their size, shape, hair and eye colour, strength, clothing, skin colour etc. For their personality think about how they behave, how they act and treat people and explain the words you have chosen give reasons to evaluate their personality.
• Then, take some notes about the character’s background, who they are, family and friends, what is their role within the book, film, TV series, likes and dislikes.
• Next, write your description of your character including a variety of interesting adjectives to describe their appearance and their personality make sure the reader is able to build a clear picture of them in their minds. When writing about the character’s personality evaluate and explain the adjectives you have chosen, why would you describe them as this (an example has been shown below). In the introduction explain who the character is and a little bit of background about who they are.
• When you have finished your writing, read over what you have read making any changes you may need to. Then using the success criteria, assess what you have written. 2 things you have done well and 1 thing that you think you can improve on next time – just same way as you would in school.

Character Description Writing (First Level) – Primary 4s

Character Description Writing (Second Level) – Primary 5s

I didn’t write the one about Hermione Granger that is included – but funnily enough it would have been the character I would have chosen!