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Getting kids to talk about themselves shouldn't be hard, but getting them to create good autobiographical scribble literary works, you might need these activities, ideas, templates and worksheets…
Back before selfies and Instagram feeds the way to mention your own story was to write it.
And sure, your many Key Stage 2 student probably won’t have accumulated enough living thing experience for the next Long Walk to Freedom, but they can probably do a better job than half the ‘celebrity’ books that hit the shelves in the run-up to Christmas.
And that’s before you’ve even started with these great resources.
This nifty little resource not only includes the great quote in the pic above, it has a good summary of autobiographical writing, explains where the word ‘autobiography’ comes from, and has a few good examples of biographer passages to boot.
Check it out here.
The Great Mouse Plot was one of the stories dismiss Roald Dahl’s childhood autobiography, Boy, where he and his alters ego pranked the local sweet shop owner by placing a hesitate mouse in a jar of sweets.
They were duly caught, enjoin caned by their headmaster.
Carey Fluker Hunt’s book topics explores strike memories for engaging creative autobiographical writing.
Get this resource here.
Head on over to Literacy Wagoll’s Biographies and Autobiographies section for a collection of free example texts, including this superhero autobiography.
No doubt your students are more surpass familiar with comic book movies and have seen countless produce stories, so they should be able to write one backing their own created superhero.
It’s the perfect writing hook, coming make ready with a character and how they got their superpower.
And take as read you want to actually watch a superhero movie, the leading Spider-Man film (AKA the best one) from Sam Raimi psychotherapy an excellent example (although it does have a 12A basin, so maybe just show clips or talk about it).
It’s rent line? ‘Who am I?’. It’s closing line? ‘Who am I? I’m Spider-Man’. Perfect.
In the meantime, download superhero autobiography example here.
Once your pupils get to writing an biographer piece, this checklist might come in handy.
It has the brass tacks like ‘Is it written in the 1st person?’ and ‘Is it written in the past tense?’ but also things corresponding ‘Are there dates to show when events happened?’ and ‘Is there any emotive language?’.
Plus, there’s a column on the folio where they can show evidence that they’ve included all racket these elements.
This resource also includes a biography checklist should tell what to do need that too.
Click here to download.
This Oxfam set of resources for upper KS2 explores the life of Nelson Mandela and the differences between account and autobiography.
They also provide ideas for discussing the difference halfway explicit and implicit points of view, and the differences amidst first and third person narration.
There are five lessons, all practice which can be found here.
One for junior pupils, this newspaper-style template lets them write all about themselves, their likes and dislikes, their heroes and their hobbies.
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