Filter by
Subjects
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (712)
- Writing (40)
- Post-1900 (37)
- Charles Dickens (32)
- A Christmas Carol (27)
- Charles Dickens (27)
- Comprehension (27)
- A Christmas Carol (26)
- Reading (25)
- UK (25)
- Graphs (21)
- Translation (19)
- Algebra (18)
- William Shakespeare (18)
- An Inspector Calls (16)
- Arthur Miller (16)
- Asia (16)
- J.B. Priestley (16)
- William Shakespeare (16)
- Writing (16)
- Africa (14)
- A View from the Bridge (14)
- Vocabulary learning (14)
- Tragedy (13)
- Reading (12)
- South America (11)
- Non-fiction (9)
- Fiction (8)
- Cause and consequence (7)
- Continuity and change (7)
- Required practicals (7)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (6)
- Europe (6)
- Experimental skills (6)
- Handling data (6)
- Interpretations (6)
- Oliver Twist (6)
- North America (5)
- Oceania (5)
- 19th century (4)
- Animal Farm (4)
- George Orwell (4)
- Higher (4)
- Using evidence (4)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (3)
- Chronology (3)
- Foundation (3)
- Speaking (3)
- Tennessee Williams (3)
- Unseen (3)
- About a Boy (2)
- An Ideal Husband (2)
- Artemis Fowl (2)
- Beverley Naidoo (2)
- Cecil Day-Lewis (2)
- Chinua Achebe (2)
- Death of a Salesman (2)
- Edward Lear (2)
- Eoin Colfer (2)
- Fiction (2)
- Hamlet (2)
- Helen Ward (2)
- John Agard (2)
- Macbeth (2)
- Macbeth (2)
- Malorie Blackman (2)
- Marcus Sedgwick (2)
- Much Ado About Nothing (2)
- My Swordhand is Singing (2)
- Nick Hornby (2)
- Oscar Wilde (2)
- Othello (2)
- Othello (2)
- Reasoning (2)
- Similarity and difference (2)
- The Other Side of Truth (2)
- The Tin Forest (2)
- Analysis and evaluation (1)
- Antarctica (1)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1)
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (1)
- Geometry and trigonometry (1)
- Harry Potter series (1)
- Henry IV Part I (1)
- J. K. Rowling (1)
- Middle East (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 2 (1)
- Problem solving (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Robert Browning (1)
- Robert Browning (1)
- Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta (1)
- Stephen Davies (1)
- The BFG (1)
- The Prince of Mist (1)
- The Yellowcake Conspiracy (1)
- Twelfth Night (1)
Resource type
- (-) Homework (1034)
- Worksheet (748)
- Student activity (518)
- Revision (303)
- Starter/Plenary (272)
- Game/quiz (65)
- Differentiated (53)
- Exam preparation (52)
- Complete lesson (51)
- Teaching ideas (36)
- Assessment (27)
- Self-assessment (14)
- Lesson plan (9)
- Templates (8)
- Display/posters (7)
- Knowledge organisers (7)
- Role play/debate/discussion (7)
- Teaching pack (6)
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.