Examples of level 5 biography writing projects

This Grade 5 Biography Writing Unit has EVERYTHING you need - worksheets, slides, and an engaging culminating task - to get your students excited about report writing. The unit includes a 22-day unit plan to help you fit all the useful teaching content included altogether.

This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 5 Ontario Language Curriculum. Each page is linked to a specific expectation in the Ontario curriculum, which is indicated at the bottom of each page for easy teacher reference.

Worksheets: Students will enjoy completing a scaffolded workbook that teaches important biography writing skills, like topic, purpose, and audience, structuring a biography, and gathering information. Students will complete a structured culminating task titled “Biography" that guides them through writing a biography. Students will complete worksheets that help them organize their ideas, gather information, produce drafts, and revise their biography before completing a final product.

Slides: Slides are included to help you introduce each concept to students. Slides also include interactive components where students type their answers directly on the slide.

This UNIT includes:

• 4-page Lesson Plan for the teacher (With 22 days of lessons, expectations, le

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  Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation

  1.Using your classroom or school library, have each student check out a biography of a famous person. The biography should be about one of the three people on the student's list from Session 1.
  
  2.Pass out the Web Rubric and go over expectations and criteria with students.
  
  

  • Web has categories that fit with the information written about the person and are easily understood by the reader.
    
    
  • Each category has supporting information that helps the reader understand the details of the person's life.
    
    
  • The writing is clear with no spelling or grammatical errors.
    
    
  • Each bubble gives brief, clear information.
    
    
  • Web shows the main achievements of the person's life based on the student's interpretation.
    

  3.Use the sample web for Martin Luther King, Jr. to model for students how each item of the rubric applies to the creation of the web.
  
  4.Ask students to skim (or preread) their biographies, focusing on the questions they generated during Session 1 about the selected person. Then have students work with their partners to group the information they find into appropriate categories and start a rough draft of their webs.
  
  5.For homework (and, if time, in class), have students read independently as they
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Exploring biographies

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Who are biographies about?

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