Our Fairy Tale Fugitive activity is the perfect choice to help your students build an understanding of character descriptions. Its versatile design means it can be used alongside any fairy tale text!

To complete this task, allocate a secret fairy tale character to each student. Because the character is a fugitive, they must keep their identity a secret! Students will need to write a vivid description of them using the S.T.E.A.L acronym:

• S: speech
• T: thoughts
• E: emotions
• A: actions
• L: looks

We recommend encouraging the students to include additional clues in their description, such as the character’s setting, wants, needs, likes and dislikes. Once students have written their descriptions, they can draw their characters and hide their images below the lift-the-flap poem. Provide time for your students to read their character descriptions to the class, and see who can guess the fairy tale fugitive’s identity!

We have included two versions of this task to cater for the needs of your class.