Stories and words
Three-Box Comic
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Thinking sheet · Stories and words
Interview a Character
Pretend you’re a reporter. Ask a character four questions and imagine how it answers.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Stories and words
- Kids practice
- asking good questions, point of view, dialogue
What kids do
“You have five minutes with a famous unicorn. What will you ask?”
- Draw the character answering
- Questions and answers
- More questions and answers
- The most surprising thing I learned:
How to run it
- Practice open questions (“why”, “how”) versus yes/no ones.
- Any character works: from a book, a drawing lesson or the child’s own.
- Act out a few interviews in pairs.
Talk about it
- Which question got the best answer?
- How did you decide how the character talks?
- What would the character ask you?
Take it further
Turn the interview into a short magazine article.
Pairs well with
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