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Autobiography - KS3
This Year 7/8 autobiography unit of work is made up of a PowerPoint presentation and a 16-page booklet of worksheets. It contains a series of fully editable progressive lessons designed to teach the key features of autobiographical writing at lower KS3. Content includes:
- What is an autobiography?
- What are the key features of autobiographical writing?
- Understanding the first person perspective
- Spelling keywords in autobiographical writing
- Effective sentence construction
- Analysis of how writers create suspense in an autobiographical text
- Assessment task - create a piece of autobiographical writing
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Biographies and autobiographies
What is a biography.
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 worksheets alongside reading comprehensions based on biographical texts about famous people.
Download our model texts, worksheets and PowerPoints to develop children’s biography writing skills and support them in researching the lives of famous individuals.
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Subject: English
Age range: 11-14
Resource type: Assessment and revision
Last updated
17 August 2014
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Learn about how to structure an autobiography with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize. ... A memoir is a type of autobiographical writing that focuses on an important ...
2. Look for information in books or online. 3. Write up your biography. Aim to write about three to five paragraphs (200 to 300 words in total). Top tip! You could use subheadings like 'Early ...
BBC Bitesize - KS3 English - Writing an autobiography. Key Stage Three Bitesize Revision
Autobiography and biography. Accessible and supportive classroom resources to develop KS3 and GCSE students' understanding of the key features of autobiographical and biographical writing. Resources.
Autobiography - KS3 - teaching resource. Autobiography - KS3. This Year 7/8 autobiography unit of work is made up of a PowerPoint presentation and a 16-page booklet of worksheets. It contains a series of fully editable progressive lessons designed to teach the key features of autobiographical writing at lower KS3. Content includes:
Autobiography - KS3. This Year 7/8 autobiography unit of work is made up of a PowerPoint presentation and a 16-page booklet of worksheets. It contains a series of fully editable progressive lessons designed to teach the key features of autobiographical writing at lower KS3.
The earliest known example of an autobiography is Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo. This is a distinctly different work to the album Confessions, by Usher, in that it takes the form of 13 different books which chronicle Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is definitely not a classic of the R&B genre.
Age range: 11-14. Resource type: Lesson (complete) File previews. PNG, 321.56 KB. PNG, 84.01 KB. PNG, 56.74 KB. zip, 3.86 MB. English transition lesson for new Year 7 students that explores autobiographies as we start to plan our own autobiography entry. We looks at the six Ws (who, what,where, when, why, how) and opening texts, using narrative ...
Learning Objectives: ⇒ To understand the style of autobiographical writing and the relationship with the reader. ⇒ Revision of nouns, verbs and adjectives. ⇒ Revision of full stops and capital letters. Aim: ⇒ To read three different types of autobiographical writing: narrative, poetry and newspaper article.
Biography. Ahhhh the good old biography...there's nothing like a personal account of someone else that's been embellished with opinion, facts, and intriguing investigative tidbits. Explore Beyond's range of biography secondary resources and help KS3 English students explore this non-fiction writing style in depth with our footballer fact ...
Autobiography. An autobiography is a literary genre that is a self-written account of a person's life.It is often written by people who are well recognised or well-renowned in an attempt to inform the reader of their thoughts and experiences, but they can be written by anyone. Download FREE teacher-made resources covering 'Autobiography'.
Beyond's Autobiography Example Resource Pack includes an example resource that KS3 students can annotate themselves, as well as a display poster for reference. We've all fantasised about writing our autobiography. Of course, it would be an instant bestseller, critically lauded, and a fixture on bookshelves in every home up and down the land ...
Four lessons on autobiographical writing produced for year 6/7 transition week. Includes: - 4 PPTs - All resources - Knowledge organiser. International; Resources; Jobs; Schools directory; ... Short KS3 scheme of work on autobiographical writing - full lessons. Subject: English. Age range: 11-14. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. heidiheidibee ...
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 ...
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.
English KS3 (Year 8) Module One: Literary non-fiction 1 Lesson One Autobiography Aims By the end of this lesson you should know more about: • adjectives • what autobiography is • how older texts differ from modern ones • using adjectives to describe a scene Context This module looks at several types of literary non-fiction.
docx, 30.5 KB. xls, 43.5 KB. These are power points and resources that I used to cover the theme of Autobiography and Biography within the KS3 scheme of work, topics are predominantly covered by the power points and are supported via work sheets and hand outs! Feel free to nab the resources, they took me ages to make!
The key features for KS2 students to use when learning how to write an autobiography are as follows: Write in the first person (I/Me) Write in chronological order with time connectives. Include memories, influences and achievements. Use names of individuals, places and dates for specific events. Include hopes and plans for the future.
An autobiography is an account of someone's life, written by themselves. It's different from a biography, which is written by someone else. The word autobiography literally means 'self writing graph'. An autobiography has a number of features specific to this genre of writing. For example, an autobiography is always written in the first ...
A comic combines words and pictures in a sequence close sequenceA specific order. to tell a story or share information. Comics have unique features including: individual panels close panelAn ...