Teaching Biographies To Elementary Students (Grades ) in
Teaching biographies can feel intimidating at first, but once you have a solid understanding of the genre, a roadmap of how to teach it, and teaching resources and activities, it’s easy! This post will equip you with all of that and more! You’ll feel prepared (and maybe even excited) about teaching biographies (especially if you are using this biography project and these biography activities)!
What is a Biography?
A biography is a written account of someone’s life. It typically focuses on important events, achievements, and experiences that shaped that person. It gives readers a detailed look at their background, career, relationships, and contributions to society or a particular field. Biographies can be about historical figures, celebrities, scientists, politicians, or even regular people who’ve had interesting lives.
What is the Difference Between a Biography and an Autobiography?
The difference between a biography and an autobiography is who is telling the story. A biography is written by someone else about a person’s life. The author conducts research through sources like interviews, documents, and other writi
3rd Grade Biography Project
Last week, our third graders presented book reports and dressed as the subject of their chosen biography of a famous person from history. A biography is a detailed description about the life of a person. Beyond learning basic facts like education, career, family, and death, students learned about relationships that person made and their impact on our country. We had so much fun learning about famous people!
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Elementary School
Engage your readers with this complete non-fiction reading unit, which uses biography book clubs as the basis of the lessons.
This unit covers ALL Grade 3 Reading Information Text common core standards AND all Speaking and Listening standards!! It could easily be adapted for other grades!
Students will apply a multitude of reading strategies in a fun and engaging way. The lessons incorporate teacher modeling with a read aloud text and then scaffolds this learning through student book clubs. Students will also learn and practice valuable cooperative learning and discussion skills while working within a book club.
Students will study the life of a well-known person by reading a biography, creating a timeline, describing how the the events are connected and apply their learning by reflecting upon what life lessons can be learned from their life.
This is a comprehensive unit and includes all of the materials that you will need (except the biography books!)!!
Contents
( Pages)
**This unit contains 14 Complete Lessons (30 pages) plus the following student resources:
Anchor Charts
• Biography Characteristics
• Text Features
• Text Structures
• Main Idea Categories
Poster
The BEST Elementary Biography Project
Looking for a fun, new research and writing project for your elementary kiddos? This living wax museum is a great way to tie together reading, writing, social studies and speaking and listening skills all in one fun project. I have done this project with second through fourth graders and they have all loved it.
Reading
Start this project off by having your students select what famous figure they want to research, or by assigning them a famous figure. My ABSOLUTE favorite books for us to conduct our research are the &#;Who Was&#; Series by Jim Gigliotti. They are perfect for on-level/higher second graders, and are most appropriate for third and fourth grade students.
Typically, I will introduce the project, show the students my example, and then briefly introduce all of the famous figures that they can pick from. I then let them go one by one and pick which person they want to research.
For my second graders, I always have one group (my lower level readers) that work together to collect our research all on the same person, but then I release them to each write their own reports.
We spend about one week reading our boo
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