Biography examples year 6 maths
Year 6 Greater Depth Model Text – Biography – Charles Darwin
This model text is a biography written about Charles Darwin. It has been written to meet the Year 6 expected standard and comes with a handy annotated version detailing the text-type specific features (red), grammar (green), punctuation (purple) and spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners.
This resource also comes with a ‘model text comprehension pack’ focusing on content domains 2a, 2b and 2d.
National Curriculum Objectives
Writing: English Y5/6: Pupils should be taught to use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader.
Level of this Pack:
Age: 10-11
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Year 6 Model Text – Biography – William Shakespeare
This model text is a biography focusing on the life of William Shakespeare. It has been written to meet the Year 6 expected standard and comes with a handy annotated version detailing the text-type specific features (red), grammar (green), punctuation (purple) and spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners.
This resource also comes with a ‘model text comprehension pack’ focusing on content domains 2a, 2b and 2d.
National Curriculum Objective
Writing: English Year 6: Pupils should be taught to use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader.
Level of this Pack:
Age: 10-11
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Australian Curriculum 9.0 Year 6 Writing Unit Biography
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Help your students understand the basic features of a biography with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring your writing lessons to life as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the AC9E6LA085, AC9E6LE01, AC9E6LE02, AC9E6LE05, AC9E6LY03, AC9E6LY06, AC9E6LY08 and AC9E6LY0 elements of the Australian Year 6 English curriculum (version 9.0). Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help budding authors write a gripping and informative biography!
The Complete Year 6 Biography Writing Unit
Bring the fun back into learning about biographies as you guide your students through the following Australian Curriculum (version 9.0) Year 6 English content descriptors:
– Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole AC9E6LA08
– Identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors AC9E6LE01
– Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots AC9E6LE02
– Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices AC9E6LE05
– Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences AC9E6LY03
– Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features AC9E6LY06
– Use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme rela
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Unit 1 Core: Introduction to biographies: Jesse Owens and The Undefeated (suggested as 5 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson
Optional Texts
Little Leaders – Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Little Leaders – Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids by Arlisha Norwood
Weblinks
Kwame Alexander reads from The Undefeated
Biography of Jesse Owens on the Olympics website
Unit 2 SPaG: Devices to build cohesion between and within paragraphs (suggested as 3 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins
Weblinks
Brief biography of Althea Gibson, from the History Channel
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington perform ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’
Brief video of the context for the 1963 March on Washington, from the History Channel
Unit 3 SPaG: Formal language including use of subjunctive (suggested as 2 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins
Weblinks
BBC Newsround video about the Windrush Generation
Short BBC interview with Floella Benjamin
Unit 4 Reading autobiography and writing biographies – Coming to England (suggested as 5 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Coming to England by Floella Benjamin