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Biography Graphic Organizers

biography graphic organizer pdf elementary

Download our set of free biography graphic organizers to help organize your student’s research of famous people.

These biography graphic organizers will provide your children with a range of options.

Help your writers and readers as they work to develop research skills.

This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from The Curriculum Corner.

An addition to your classroom research practice!

These famous people graphic organizers are designed to help your students develop their research skills.

Helping students learn how to research and record answers is a skill that can be difficult. It is also a very important skill for students to have in today’s world.

Whether they are researching through reading books or practicing their internet research skills, we hope these printable pages are helpful.

Download our set of free biography graphic organizers to help organize your student's research of famous people.

Why did we create these biography graphic organizers?

It can be overwhelming for students to narrow down search results when they complete an internet search.

Part of our job is to help them find accurate and meaningful information when they practice searching.

We feel that providing students with practice with the skill of researching is meaningful practice.

We have created a collection of graphic organizers to help your students record as they are learning about famous people.

For students who might be overwhelmed by searching for the answers, it might be a good idea to help them as they begin.

You can guide students who need a little more help to a specific site where they can find the needed information.

Other students might be able to research on their own without the guidance.

Some children might benefit from a small group where you complete the research together.

Remember to differentiate for your students so that each has a task that fits their needs.

Each of the 8 organizers has a different focus, but is presented in the same format. These will give students a foundation for their knowledge of the person they are learning about.

Plus, we are providing a blank form that can be used for a focus of your student’s choice.

Graphic Organizers Provided

For each topic, we have created a two page graphic organizer for students to record the important facts they find.

For the picture spot, you might have students draw a picture or print one they find when researching.

It might simply be a starting point, or could be an outline from which the students write a biography.

These pages include the following topics:

actor, actress
person in history
trailblazer
young activist
any famous person

You can download this free set of graphic organizers here:

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Using graphic organizers with biographies—with free download.

Hello all. I’m Rich from Mr. Giso's Room to Read , and this is my third guest blog post featuring the biographies. You can read the earlier ones here and here . The Hameray Biography Series has been a hit in my multi-age classroom.

Warm weather is (hopefully) upon us! This means many of us may be wrapping up a productive school year or adventuring on an extended year or summer program launch. A goal for my readers over the summer months is that they keep on reading in order to avoid the well-known “summer slide” in reading ability. Our young readers’ reading muscles often weaken from not being kept in shape over the summer.

What I like about these prompts is that they place the readers in the shoes of the subject of the biography. This response activity can be placed in an independent center, sent home in a summer reading log, completed during independent reading just before a reading conference or as a send-off response to text after a guided-reading lesson. It is very versatile! You can download the sheet at the bottom of this page!

Now I've moved to the Carlton Innovation School, also in Salem, Massachusetts, where I am ready to begin my first year as a member of a team of four teachers that teach grades one and two. In addition, I teach undergraduate and graduate students at Salem State University. My courses involve literacy, children's literature, and elementary education. My educational interests include early literacy, effective reading interventions, and positive classroom climates.

For more information about the Hameray Biography Series , click the series highlights image on the left below to download an information sheet with key features. To download the graphic organizer, click the worksheet image to the right.

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Help organise your thinking with this valuable and FREE Biography Graphic Organizer.

Graphic organizers help students write compelling biographies and make teaching easier. They provide a structured way to organize information and foster critical thinking. These tools make complex concepts more accessible and serve as effective assessment instruments. Graphic organizers enhance the biography writing process, empowering students and providing insights for teachers.

It comes in a printable PDF Format and is easy to use.

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Famous Historical Figures - Biography Graphic Organizer Packs

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Dive into a research project on key figures in history with a set of Important Historical Figure graphic organizers.

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Grades: 2 - 5

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Research projects in the classroom can be daunting. Assigning individual research topics, fielding two-hundred questions, and managing the progress of each student can be quite the task. We’re all for making lives simpler, especially teachers’ lives. That’s we have developed these historical figures research project templates

Since there are so many amazing Americans in our history , we’ve divided our resources into five different groupings of templates, centered around a common theme. The resource groupings included are

Important Women in History

This grouping includes a biography graphic organizer for Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Sacagawea, Susanna Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Helen Keller, Ruby Bridges, and Irma Rangel.

Scientists, Inventors, and Astronauts

This grouping includes a biography graphic organizer for Bill Gates, Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk, Louis Pasteur, James Lovell, Cyrus McCormick, and Neil Armstrong.

Influential Texans

This grouping includes a biography graphic organizer for Davey Crockett, Irma Rangel, William B. Travis, Hector P. Garcia, Todd Beamer, Sam Houston, James Bowie, Juan Seguin, Susanna Dickinson, and Cesar Chavez.

Human Rights Heroes

This grouping includes a biography graphic organizer for Sojourner Truth, Irma Rangel, Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, Hector P. Garcia, Ruby Bridges, Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony.

America’s Founding Fathers

This grouping includes a biography graphic organizer for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington.

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Use the dropdown arrow on the Download button to select the grouping of research templates of your choice. Download the PDF file, make your copies, and you are ready to go! Simple, effective, and organized for your convenience.

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Researching real people helps students to get a more concrete and compassionate understanding of the culture, lives, and perspectives of people from around the world and throughout history! In this activity, students will research a person and then fill in their biography graphic organizer worksheet to highlight their important life events and accomplishments.

Find many more graphic organizers here: Biography Worksheets . Teachers can add as many templates as they wish to differentiate and meet the varying needs of students or for early finishers to do more than one digital worksheet.

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Objective: Research a person and fill in the graphic organizer with important details about their life and add engaging imagery.

Student Instructions:

Choose a famous or notable person to research.
Using school resources, conduct research about the person's life.
On the graphic organizer, include your person’s name and dates of birth, death and major accomplishments in sequence.
Add appropriate characters and items to decorate your graphic organizer and represent your person.
Click save and exit when you're finished.

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Our 100% free printable graphic organizers (PDFs) and transparent, downloadable image files (JPGs, PNGs, and SVGs) are highly useful tools in education for several reasons. We think you'll love using them, on your own or with students! Take your pick.

: Graphic organizers visually represent information, making it easier for K-12+ students to see relationships, connections, and hierarchies within a subject or topic. This visual format helps learners process complex information more effectively. Good grief--all of us understand things better with a good visual aid!

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