Creating Authentic Characters Worksheet

This resource guides students through building complex, believable characters by combining thoughtful biographical questions with challenging sentence-level writing tasks. It’s ideal for developing narrative and descriptive writing skills with depth, structure, and precision; designed for GCSE Narrative/escriptive writing, but easily adaptable for KS3

Each profile prompt is paired with a sentence-writing challenge using advanced structures from high-scoring student models, including:

• So, so sentences
• Triple adjective + colon
• Simile phrases
• Fronted clauses
• “No, no, no, only…” structure
• Embedded metaphor