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Resource Pack: Writing Extraordinary Biographies
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Have you discovered Puffin’s brilliant biographies for kids aged seven and up?
The Extraordinary Lives series includes: Malala, Michelle Obama, Stephen Hawking, Anne Frank , Katherine Johnson and Neil Armstrong. These beautifully illustrated books include timelines, fascinating facts and inspirational quotes from their stars. The series celebrates how ordinary people can lead extraordinary lives because of their own choices, actions, beliefs and passions and will inspire your class that they too can be extraordinary.
This resource pack includes:
You’ll get material for four or more Literacy, Citizenship and PSHE lessons, adaptable for pupils in KS2 and KS3.
Once pupils understand the different features of biography writing they’ll be able to create the biography of an extraordinary person of their choice using the template in the pack
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Features of a biography KS2 – 8 of the best worksheets and resources for writing and comprehension
Whether they're recounting the lives of famous people or simply describing a family member, these activities, ideas and model texts will help your Key Stage 2 pupils get to grips with biographical writing…
1 | KS2 biographical recounts worksheets
This Key Stage 2 text types resource pack will help children to learn how to write informative biographical recounts.
They will write a biography about an influential person – either someone that they know or someone who is in the public eye – and there are two model texts included to inspire them (one on a relative and one on a famous figure).
This resource also includes a biography writing sheet, biography research sheet, writing plan, writing frame and themed writing paper.
Check it all out here.
2 | Features of a biography
For a good grounding in what a biography is and what it should include, the BBC bitesize page has handy, digestible pointers, plus videos, a quiz and more.
Check it out here.
3 | Puffin’s brilliant biographies resource
Based on its Extraordinary Lives series this resource pack from Puffin helps pupils understand the different features of biography writing, and lets them create the biography of an extraordinary person of their choice using the template in the pack.
The pack includes material for four or more Literacy, Citizenship and PSHE lessons, all of which are adaptable for pupils in KS2 and KS3.
Find it here.
4 | Barack Obama biography activity pack
This resource uses a topic-based approach to biographies based on President Obama.
Activities include a comprehension exercise, making a photo gallery, researching flags and facts about countries cited in Obama’s biography and writing a biography. Plus there are lots of extension ideas and activities included.
Find it all here.
5 | Muhammad Ali biography worksheet
Where was Muhammad Ali born? What was he known as before he changed his name? When did he retire?
Students are tasked to with using library books, magazines and/or online sources to fill in this report form about perhaps the greatest boxer of all time.
Download and print it here.
6 | Biography Wagoll model texts
As ever, if you’re looking for a selection of editable model texts for pretty much any literacy topic, Literacy Wagoll is a great place to go.
In the biographies section you’ll find everyone from Usain Bolt and David Beckham to Mary Berry, Jacqueline Wilson, Henry VIII, Roald Dahl and Santa Claus.
Check them all out here here.
7 | Florence Nightingale biography sequencing activity
This simple printable resource includes a number of sentences about Florence Nightingale for you to cut out and task students with putting back in the correct order.
Get this PDF to print out here.
8 | A biography of palaeontologist Mary Anning
Mary Anning was born on 21 May 1799 in the seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Mary received little education, was not trained as a scientist, but grew up to be a palaeontologist whose findings helped change the way scientists thought about the world.
This Year 6 Science biography helps children explain why she was so important to our understanding of fossils and acts as a handy model text for biographical writing.
Download it here.
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Year 5: Biographies and Autobiographies (Week 1 of 2)
Subject: English
Age range: 7-11
Resource type: Unit of work
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This bundle includes 5 complete lesson plans, resources and an interactive PowerPoint to support the learning of Biographies and Autobiographies. This week, children will focus mainly on biographies. They will learn to read and identify the features of a biographical text before applying these when asked to write a biography about another member of the class during lesson 5! SPAG/GPS covered this week: prefixes, suffixes and sentence types (simple, compound and complex). Download Week 2 here !
Lesson 1: To read, compare and identify the features of a biography Lesson 2: To rewrite a biography extract using dialogue Lesson 3: To investigate suffixes Lesson 4: To investigate sentence structure in formal writing Lesson 5: To write a biography
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2. Look for information in books or online. 3. Write up your biography. Aim to write about three to five paragraphs (200 to 300 words in total). Top tip! You could use subheadings like 'Early ...
To plan a biography. Share activities with pupils. Lesson details. Video. Lesson details. Key learning points. In this lesson, we will write a complex sentence with a relative clause about Charles Darwin. We will plan a biographical introduction and refer to notes made from the previous lesson. Finally, we will plan a concluding paragraph.
In this lesson, we will plan our biography on Harriet Tubman, who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. We will use our previous notes from Lesson 4 of this unit and collate them into a plan ready to write. Content guidance. Contains depictions of discriminatory behaviour.
docx, 493.72 KB. pptx, 4.92 MB. This series of lessons teaches children how to plan, structure, write and edit biographies. Can be used and adapted to Years 4-6. Included is the PowerPoint, example biography and lesson plans. Hope it is useful. Visit 2 Stars and a Wish for ideas on how to use songs and poetry to teach reading.
Key learning points. A biography is a non-fiction text written about someone's life. Linguistic features of a biography include fronted adverbials, facts, relative complex sentences and parenthesis. Structural features include a title, subheadings and relevant information grouped by theme. The purpose of a biography is to inform the reader ...
Writing a biography KS2 can be a fun and engaging topic to introduce to your KS2 students. These Biography Text Examples Resource Pack are a great resource to use with your kids to understand the structure, characteristics and features used in writing a biography (KS2). This is just one of many resources that you can use in teaching writing a ...
Biographies and Autobiographies Primary Resources. Write about the lives of notable people with our autobiography and biography template, KS2 resources and worksheets for your English reading and writing classes. All of our Biography templates KS2 and more are teacher-made to ensure they meet high standards to meet your lesson's aims and can ...
Upper KS2. Set of five complete lessons with all worksheets and pupil resources. Includes a Biography checklist, sample biographies about Queen Victoria and Nelson Mandela, a blank biography spider-gram, blank planning templates (scaffolded) and a fact sheet about Mary Anning. The series of lessons include opportunities for pupils to give peer ...
Use this UKS2 knowledge organiser to ensure your pupils have all the key features for writing biographies at their fingertips. This resource includes a word bank, modal verbs, fronted adverbials, examples of passive voice and a checklist of the key features found in biographical texts. Use the model text as an example of how to integrate all of the features into pupils' individual writing.
Click on the image below to read a biography from Bitesize KS2 History about the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning. Mary Anning biography Imagine the same story, but told by Mary Anning herself.
docx, 19.07 KB. ppt, 10.53 MB. ppt, 8.9 MB. Here are plans and slides for a biography unit for KS2. The lessons in this resources are themed around architects Norman Foster and Christopher Wren but can easily be adjusted for other significant people. The lessons include shared writing, skills lesson, SPaG games and starters and planning time.
Biography planning grid. Add to My Folder. Join Scholastic Resource Bank: Primary from just £15.00. a year to access thousands of KS1 and KS2 resources. Make notes that can be used in planning to write a biography.
This resource pack includes: You'll get material for four or more Literacy, Citizenship and PSHE lessons, adaptable for pupils in KS2 and KS3. Once pupils understand the different features of biography writing they'll be able to create the biography of an extraordinary person of their choice using the template in the pack.
Primary. Category. Writing different text types: Biographies and autobiographies. Resource type. Lesson plan. A comprehensive KS2 PowerPoint presentation to help children write a successful biography with advice on purpose, structure and features. 315.64 KB. Free download. 146.5 KB.
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Make a timeline: Biographies are told in chronological order, so make a timeline of the person's important life events to make sure you get them right. Include your thoughts: Explain how certain events are significant and important. This helps to create emotional impact on the reader. This brilliant Writing a biography KS2 word mat guides ...
Key learning points. In this lesson, we will start off looking at parentheses: brackets, dashes and commas and their function within a sentence. We will explore the features of a biography: layout, punctuation, purpose, language, sentence structure, etc.
4 | Barack Obama biography activity pack. This resource uses a topic-based approach to biographies based on President Obama. Activities include a comprehension exercise, making a photo gallery, researching flags and facts about countries cited in Obama's biography and writing a biography.
Plan a lesson. Support your team. Pupils. Learn online. Oak. Blogs. Webinars. About us. Contact us. Help. Oak National Academy. Home. Key Stage 2. ... In this lesson, we will introduce what a biography is, we will look at the features of a biography and we will find examples of features in a biography. Content guidance.
Download Week 2 here! Lesson 1: To read, compare and identify the features of a biography. Lesson 2: To rewrite a biography extract using dialogue. Lesson 3: To investigate suffixes. Lesson 4: To investigate sentence structure in formal writing. Lesson 5: To write a biography. Total Number of Slides: 32.
Keywords. Biography - a non-fiction text written about someone's life. Formal tone - the effect created by choosing serious, factual language. Third person - the 'he/she/it/they' perspective, where we talk about another person. Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma. Relative clause - a type of subordinate clause starting with a relative pronoun (such as who, which or whose)
Whether you want to start writing a biography about a famous person, historical figure, or an influential family member, it's important to know all the elements that make a biography worth both writing and reading. Biographies are how we learn information about another human being's life. Whether you want to start writing a biography about ...
This resource defines and explains biography writing with simple-to-understand language, perfect for your students to comprehend and interpret. A fantastic teaching tool to introduce biography writing, or alternatively to review and consolidate students' understanding of this writing style. Suitable for students in middle and upper primary ...