Help your children to master character descriptions with this enormous pack of teaching, display and activity resources! With guides, mats, posters, cards and challenges galore, it offers a variety of ways to inspire brilliant character writing.
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- One 18-Page How to Describe a Character Guide – A detailed guide that suggests ways children can describe characters in their writing!
- Two ‘How to Describe a Character’ Reference Mats – A helpful mat that can be used by your children when they are writing about characters.
- Twelve How to Describe a Character Reference Posters – Display posters for children to refer to when writing.
- Twelve Character Reference Mats – Posters that show different characters with words and phrases that could be used to describe them.
- Twelve Character Description Sheets – Can your children think of adjectives and adverbs to describe these characters?
- Two ‘Matching Adjectives with Characters’ Sheets – Match the suggested adjectives to the characters shown.
- Two ‘Matching Adverbs with Characters’ Tasks – Challenge your students to identify the best adverbs to describe the characters.
- Two ‘Character Similes and Metaphors’ Pages – Can your children suggest similes and metaphors that might describe each character?
- Three ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Sheets – Use ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ to describe these people and animals.
- Two ‘Contrast’ Activities – How are these characters different from others, or from what you might expect?
- Two ‘Foreshadowing’ Pages – Write a description of each character and include details that may be important later in a story about them.
- Four Pages of Character Cards – A collection of cards showing a variety of characters. Matching activity cards are also available.
- Four ‘Character Description Analysis’ Tasks – Look at these character descriptions and identify adjectives, adverbs, similes, metaphors and more!
- Six How to Describe a Character Banners – Banners to use when your children are writing about characters.
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The How to Describe a Character Pack
Average rating: 2 reviews
Zuriette
Nov 2, 2025
How to Describe a Character
A GREAT resource to support a character description. It is a tricky skill for many students, but I feel this will be very helpful. The Reference Mat is on point as always to guide students with guidance and context. Thank you.
Rowan
Oct 30, 2025
Brilliant!
This is going to be extremely helpful! A very good range of options, very clear and engaging.
