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What are biography and autobiography?
Usually, children will be given photocopied texts to read and then they may be asked to text-mark the above features to show that they understand how a biography is set out and what is included.
Children may then be asked to choose their own famous person that they are interested in.
Biography vs autobiography
They will be asked to find as much information about this person and make notes on them. Often teachers give children labelled spider diagrams to help children organise their information, but more able children may be asked to organise the information in their own way.
An example of a spider diagram is below:
Children will then be asked to start drafting their biography, using the notes they have collected. Once they have done this, they will go through a process of editing their writing.
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 wr