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    Writing a Biography Lesson Plan and Writing Frame

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    30 May 2022

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    Year 3/4 English - writing a biography lesson plan and writing frame:

    - writing a biography lesson plan
    - biography writing frame

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    Ordering a Biography

    This KS2 Ordering a Biography activity is ideal for teaching children about the features of writing a biography. The resource has been differentiated six ways to meet all your children's needs. In preparation for this lesson the biography needs cutting up into strips. Then children can use their knowledge and understanding of biographies to put it back into the correct order.

    The biography could also be used as a model text to explore the key features of a biography. Use this resource during your biographies topic or when celebrating Burns Night.

    Curriculum Objectives:

    English Year 3 & Year 4: Plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar

    English Year 3 & Year 4: Draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme

    English Year 5 & Year 6: Plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appr

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    Exploring biographies

    Watch: What is a biography?

    A biography is a non-fiction ord about someone's life.

    Biographies are true pieces of ord, based on fact, so biographers (the people who write biographies) have to do a lot of research. They use websites, letters, photographs, diaries and newspapers to help them.

    • Because biographies are written bygd someone else, they are written in the third person(//).

    • They are usually written in chronological order (the order in which events actually happened).

    For example, watch this clip. It gives a biography of the scientist Marie Curie.

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    Watch: Biography of Stephen Hawking

    Even though biographers do lots of research, they can only guess at what it was like to be that individ, or the thoughts and feelings the person had.

    If the individ they want to write about, or anyone who knew them, is still alive, biographers sometimes carry out an interview to ask lots of questions about the person'