Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (269)
- English (52)
- Language (37)
- Reading skills (36)
- Language analysis (31)
- Comprehension (19)
- Literature (15)
- Reading (15)
- Form and structure (13)
- Prose (10)
- Understanding purpose and audience (10)
- Modern prose (7)
- Comparing texts (5)
- Anthology poetry (4)
- Poetry (4)
- 19th-century prose (3)
- Drama (1)
- Inference (1)
- Shakespeare for key stage 3 (1)
- Spoken English (1)
- Using evidence (1)
- Writing for purpose and audience (1)
- Writing narrative texts (1)
- Writing skills (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (71)
- Post-1900 (9)
- Heritage (7)
- Gothic (5)
- Angela Carter (4)
- The Bloody Chamber (4)
- Charles Dickens (3)
- Charles Dickens (2)
- Fiction (2)
- Fiction (2)
- Great Expectations (2)
- Modern (2)
- Thomas Hardy (2)
- Alice Walker (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Comedy (1)
- Frankenstein (1)
- George Orwell (1)
- H.G. Wells (1)
- Hard Times (1)
- History (1)
- History (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- John Keats (1)
- Lloyd Jones (1)
- Margaret Atwood (1)
- Mary Shelley (1)
- Measure for Measure (1)
- Mister Pip (1)
- Pre-1900 (1)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1)
- The Color Purple (1)
- The creature (1)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (1)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1)
- The Monkey’s Paw (1)
- The Time Machine (1)
- W.W. Jacobs (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
Resource type
Exam board
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.