Biography features ks2

A biography is writing about someone’s life. If someone is writing about their own life it becomes an autobiography. These forms can also widen out to focus on a specific part of someone’s life, or their family. A biography is usually written both to inform and to entertain. This means it is a mix of factual information and creative writing.

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Usually, a teacher will mark the first draft and write comments and suggestions on it to help them with this. Another method, is for pairs of children to swap their writing and then discuss with their partner how the writing could be improved. Finally, children will write up their biographies in neat.

Writing a Biography. The PowerPoint is a structured guide to the lesson with timings which can be used alongside the planning page and other activities. I used this as a follow up to a solo talk the children prepared on a famous person for their 1960's topic.