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  1. Biographies

    A great KS2 text full of short biographies and summaries of people's lives. ... Rosa Parks! A child friendly Biography about a very important figure in history. The book describes her childhood and how she grew through prejudice. It moves on to her famous bus seat moment and looks at how she helped change the world! A motivating and very well ...

  2. KS2 Long and Short Biography Text Example Pack

    Teach your students about some of history's most inspiring people with our collection of long and short biography text examples for children whilst learning how to go about writing a biography (KS2) for themselves.Explore this resource pack and many more exciting English activities by creating your very own Twinkl account!Biographies are an excellent way of getting children interested in real ...

  3. 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.

  4. KS2 Biographies and Autobiographies Primary Resources

    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 ...

  5. KS2 Long and Short Biography Text Example Pack

    Teach your students about some of history's most inspiring people with our collection of long and short biography text examples for children while learning how to go about writing a biography (KS2) for themselves.Biographies are an excellent way of getting children interested in real-life people and stories. They can help history to come alive for students by giving real-life examples of ...

  6. KS2 RESOURCE PACK: Writing Extraordinary Biographies

    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. Welcome to Puffin ...

  7. Information Text KS2: Biography Model/Example Text

    Using the biography of Tom Daley as an example, this learning pack on information texts for KS2 is a great way to engage your English class! Designed by teachers to meet learning outcomes, this bumper pack includes a range of reading materials, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction information texts.This can demonstrate how various texts are written in terms of structure, content and ...

  8. To identify features of a biography

    To identify features of a biography. Download all resources. Share activities with pupils. Switch to our new English teaching resources. Slide decks, worksheets, quizzes and lesson planning guidance designed for your classroom. Go to English resources. Play new resources video. Slide deck. Lesson details. Video.

  9. Biographies and autobiographies

    A biography is a non-fiction text about a person's life. It is written in the third person and in chronological order. Here you'll find English teaching resources to help key stage 1 and key stage 2 children understand the features of a biography and those of autobiographical accounts. They include templates, example biographies and ...

  10. Identifying the features of a biography

    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 ...

  11. PDF NON-FICTION FOR KS2/KS3 BIOGRAPHY WRITING

    THE AIM. This Resource Pack serves as an introduction to the Extr aordinary Lives series - Puf n's extr aordinary new non- ction collection, which is perfect for KS2 and lower KS3 classrooms. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the collection includes e Extr aordinary Life of Stephen Hawking, e Extr aordinary Life of Malala Yousafzai and e ...

  12. Twinkl Biography Writing Examples

    These biography writing examples will encourage children to work hard for their aspirations.There is a fantastic range of people included in this biography writing examples pack. ... I am giving my yr5 this fact file to then turn into a diary extract using your KS2 diary prompts. Helpful. Thank you for your feedback. Hello Lauradavies23, What a ...

  13. Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Biography

    Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Biography. This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives: Pupils will look at a short extract from the text and be asked to infer what the text is about. They will then read the text as a class with the teacher posing questions throughout. They will then complete comprehension questions on the text before 'hot-seating ...

  14. Biography (Years 5-6)

    It includes all the key information about the purpose, writing style and presentation of biographies, as well as the information that it is necessary to include when writing them. Children are then challenged to write their own biography — they must make sure that they include all of the features listed. Key Stage: Key Stage 2. Subject: English.

  15. Autobiography Example

    This resource is part of our wider genre exemplar material category, which includes a wide range of example material for non-fiction writing, like this Autobiography and Biography PowerPoint, or this Autobiography Template. What Was The First Autobiography? The earliest known example of an autobiography is Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo.

  16. KS2 Autobiography and Biography PowerPoint (Teacher-Made)

    This task setting Autobiography and Biography PowerPoint gives KS2 students information on these two writing styles and the features involved. Complete with a quiz, quick tasks and ideas for writing activities, this PowerPoint will help teach your children all about autobiographies vs biographies.When your students are ready to write biographies of their own, why not make the task of ...

  17. To identify the features of a biography

    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.

  18. Biographies for kids: Inventors, World Leaders, Women, Civil Rights

    Learn the life story and biography of influencial people: US Presidents, World Leaders, Inventors, Women, Artists, Civil Rights heroes. History Biography Geography Science Games. Search Ducksters: Biographies. Biographies by Date Biographies Alphabetical. Pick the person or subject below to view biography or list of biographies: ...

  19. KS2 Features of a Biography Writing Checklist

    This handy Features of a Biography Checklist is great for your kids to learn how to write compelling biographies. It lists the main textual and grammatical features which can be ticked off by your kids as they write. These features include historical recounts, as well as the use of the past tense and third-person pronouns.

  20. KS2: New Extraordinary Biographies

    Collect all the 'Extraordinary Lives ' books. This series of beautifully illustrated biographies, for kids aged 7 and up, will help you to explore significant historical and cultural moments, from International Women's Day to the moon landing anniversary, with your class. Inspire today's young readers to be extraordinary too and check out the KS2: Biography Writing Resource Pack.

  21. PDF EXTRACTS FOR KS2 TEACHERS

    KS2 TEACHERSINTRODUCTIONEvie and the Animals and Evie in the Jungle by Matt Haig are suitabl. for teaching to aged 8+. The six extracts included in this Teachers' Pack are linked to important themes in the stories and accompanied by corresponding discussion. questions and activities. Together, they provide the perfect resource for KS2 classes ...