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Biography Writing (KS2)

Biography Writing (KS2)

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Lesson (complete)

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19 August 2019

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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.

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  1. Sentence Starters for Biography Writing with Years 3-6

    Support your Year 3-6 students to write a biography! Provide your students with a little bit of inspiration and guidance when writing a biography with these biography themed sentence starters and suggested phrases to get them started. These sentence starters and connectives will help scaffold the writing of biographies from your students that ...

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    These sentence starters and connectives will ensure that you get biographies from your students that are interesting and differ from each others. Print them out as is and give one to each of your students for their books or enlarge them to use as posters around your room. * The time came for…. * Soon afterwards…. * Shortly after this….

  4. Sentence Starters for Biography Writing with Years 3-6

    Support your Year 3-6 students to write a biography! Provide your students with a little bit of inspiration and guidance when writing a biography with these biography themed sentence starters and suggested phrases to get them started. Sign in to leave a review. Great but surely 'Later life' should come before 'Legacy' - Legacy should be last to ...

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    That makes this activity the perfect opportunity for your students to become self-sufficient writers. With these writing prompts, students will get a helpful little boost to help them describe their biography subject. Students will simply choose a prompt and use their research to complete the first sentence…. And, ideally, the next one.

  6. KS1 Writing: Biographies Knowledge Organiser (teacher made)

    Use this KS1 knowledge organiser to ensure your pupils have all the key features for writing biographies at their fingertips. This resource includes a word bank, conjunctions, -ly adverbs, examples of expanded noun phrases 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 their own writing. The model ...

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    UKS2 Writing: Formal Letters Knowledge Organiser 9 reviews. Explore more than 665 "Biography Sentence Starters" resources for teachers, parents, and students. Instantly access Twinkl's printable and digital K-12 teaching resources, including worksheets, eBooks, games, PowerPoints, Google Slides, and more!

  9. KS1 Writing: Biographies Knowledge Organiser (Teacher-Made)

    Use this KS1 knowledge organiser to ensure your pupils have all the key features for writing biographies at their fingertips. This resource includes a word bank, conjunctions, -ly adverbs, examples of expanded noun phrases 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 their own writing. The model ...

  10. Year 5: Biographies and Autobiographies (Week 1 of 2)

    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.

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    A collection of resources to use when teaching your students about the biography text type. Resources include planning templates, checklists, writing scaffolds, sequencing activities, posters and word wall vocabulary.

  12. Twinkl Biography Writing Examples

    Biographies usually include a number of literary devices to structure their work. If you are writing an example of a biography you should try to include: an interesting opening sentence to hook their reader. the past tense. third-person pronouns. key event and influences in the person's life. the passive voice.

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  14. Lesson: To plan a biography

    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.

  15. UKS2 Writing: Biographies Knowledge Organiser (Teacher-Made)

    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. 

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    This Biography Writing Examples set contains resources such as an annotated example text, which explores the decisions the writer has made and why they're effective, and a useful biography word mat to help students to learn some of the key terms that crop up in this style of writing. This would be a great choice of resource if students are just ...

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    Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: semantic cohesion (e.g. repetition of a word or phrase), grammatical connections (e.g. the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as. a consequence), and elision.

  18. Biography Writing (KS2)

    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.

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    Explore more than 196 "Biography Sentence Openers" resources for teachers, parents and pupils as well as related resources on "Sentence Starters". Check out our interactive series of lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoints and assessment tools today! All teacher-made, aligned with the Australian Curriculum.