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"Empathising is when you 'put yourself into the characters shoes' in order to gain a deeper understanding of why the character is acting the way they are in the text."
"Empathising is when you 'put yourself into the characters shoes' in order to gain a deeper understanding of why the character is acting the way they are in the text."
Language used when empathising
Language used when empathising
I think the character feels like this because...
I think the character feels like this because...
If I was in that situation I would feel...
If I was in that situation I would feel...
If that happened to me I would....
If that happened to me I would....
What is empathising with characters and situations?
What is empathising with characters and situations?
When a you empathises with a character it helps you to look deeper into how characters are developed and the language features that are used to make you like or hate certain characters or people. Understanding a characters motives and the way they are portrayed is important for developing critical thinking skills and is one of the strategies we use when using other strategies like inferencing and predicting.
How does empathising support your reading comprehension?
How does empathising support your reading comprehension?
Students who empathise with characters are able to identify key information in a text and can use their understanding of a character in order to visualise, predict and infer how a character might act in certain situations. It is a key strategy in learning to identify the author's purpose and how we portray people and characters in text. It builds connections between the author's choice of language features and how characters are represented in different texts.
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