Character Profile Template is a versatile and engaging resource designed to support comprehension and character analysis across a wide range of narrative texts. With a clear, student-friendly layout, this template guides learners in exploring a character’s personality, appearance, relationships, and actions, encouraging critical thinking, inference, and text-to-self connections. Whether used in guided reading, literature circles, or whole-class novel studies, it provides a meaningful way to engage with story characters and deepen understanding of narrative structure.

By recording key traits and supporting their ideas with text evidence, students learn to interpret character motivations and how these contribute to the plot. The visual layout includes both written response areas and a drawing space, making it an ideal balance of literacy and creativity. Suitable for use with picture books, short stories or novels, this template can be reused throughout the year to track and compare characters across different texts.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Analyse character traits using clues from dialogue, thoughts, and actions
• ✅ Support responses with paraphrased or quoted text evidence
• ✅ Build comprehension through structured character study
• ✅ Develop vocabulary, critical thinking and inference skills
• ✅ Foster deeper engagement with literature through visual and written responses

What’s Included:

• 1 x Character Profile Template
• Sections for personality traits, relationships, key actions and appearance
• Central drawing box for a visual representation of the character
• Space to record the character’s name, book title and author
• Suitable for Years 1-2 and adaptable across text types

Materials Needed:

• Printed template
• Pencils or pens
• Colouring materials for illustration
• Class novel, short story or picture book for reference

How to Use:

• Introduce the template during your literature or guided reading sessions
• Have students choose a character from a shared or independent reading text
• Students complete each section using evidence from the story to support their ideas
• Draw or paste a picture of the character in the central box
• Use finished profiles to prompt class discussion, compare characters or build comprehension displays

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Compare profiles of different characters to identify contrasting traits and behaviours
• 💡 Use during literature circles or book studies as a structured discussion support
• 💡 Add to student reading portfolios or comprehension journals

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by adding speech bubbles, thought clouds, or themed borders around their drawing
• 💛 Select characters with rich dialogue and plot involvement to maximise critical thinking opportunities
• 💛 Send completed templates home to spark family discussions about characters and books

Character Profile Template is a powerful tool for guiding students through meaningful character exploration. Combining structured comprehension tasks with opportunities for creativity, it brings story characters to life while building lasting literacy skills.