Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (67)
- Seasonal resources (11)
- Various topics (10)
- Food and drink (6)
- Language basics (4)
- Pronunciation and spelling (4)
- School and education (4)
- Animals (3)
- Shopping (3)
- Health and science (2)
- House and home, town and country (2)
- Jobs, work and business (2)
- Music and songs (2)
- Sports and games (2)
- Synonyms, opposites, collocations, idioms (2)
- Adjectives and adverbs (1)
- Books and the arts (1)
- Economics and finance (1)
- Family, friends and relationships (1)
- Holidays and travel (1)
- Imperative (1)
- Internet, engineering and technology (1)
- Natural world and built environment (1)
- Parts of speech (1)
- Pronouns and possessive adjectives (1)
Key stage
Global tag
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.