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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.
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Success Criteria for Biography Writing
Subject: English
Age range: 7-11
Resource type: Visual aid/Display
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29 February 2024
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Studying famous figures or incredible people in the community? Get your students writing biographies full of facts and anecdotes! Want to get to know your students that much better? Get them to craft autobiographies all about them!
NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8!
This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for biography and autobiography writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners
When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 26-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version)
This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of biography and autobiography writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently.
There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 2 students (age 6), the mid level is suitable for Year 3-4 (aged 7-8), and the high level is suitable for Year 5-6 (ages 8-10+).
Ready to start teaching biography writing? Here’s a helpful planning template for your students to record their information on: Biography Template
Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing
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Biography Writing Checklist – Structure, Language and Features
Updated: 24 Jul 2020
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their biography writing.
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Encourage your students to use this biography writing checklist when proofreading and editing their biographies.
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‘Hollywood Squares’ host and Broadway star Peter Marshall dies at 98
FILE - Host Peter Marshall appears at the 45th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center on Sunday, April 29, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. Marshall, who spent 16 years as host of “The Hollywood Squares,” has died at 98. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Tom Bergeron, left, rests his head on Peter Marshall’s shoulder as they present an award at the 45th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on April 29, 2018. Marshall, who spent 16 years as host of “The Hollywood Squares,” has died at 98. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.
He died Thursday of kidney failure at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said.
Marshall helped define the form of the smooth, professional, but never-too-serious modern game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1981.
But he was often closer to a talk show host, and the tic-tac-toe game the contestants played, while real, was all an excuse for a good time. The questions Marshall posed to regulars like Paul Lynde, George Gobel and Joan Rivers were designed to be set-ups for joke answers before the real ones followed.
“It was the easiest thing I’ve ever done in show business,” Marshall said in a 2010 interview for the Archive of American Television. “I walked in, said ‘Hello stars,’ I read questions and laughed. And it paid very well.”
“The Hollywood Squares” would become an American cultural institution and make Marshall a household name. It would win four Daytime Emmys for outstanding game show during his run and spawned dozens of international versions and several U.S. reboots. Not only was it a forum for such character actors as Charlie Weaver (the stage name of Cliff Arquette) and Wally Cox, but the show attracted a range of top stars as occasional guests, including Aretha Franklin, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Ed Asner and Janet Leigh.
Marshall had a warm rapport with Weaver, Lynde and others, but said that Gobel, the wry comedian, actor and variety show host, held a special place, tweeting in 2021 that it’s “no secret he was my closest friend on Hollywood Squares and my absolute all-time favorite Square!”
Marshall had lived nearly an entire show business life before he took the “Squares” podium at age 40.
He had toured with big bands starting as a teenager, had been a part of two comedy teams that appeared in nightclubs and on television, appeared in movies as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox, and had sung in several Broadway musicals when the opportunity came up after Bert Parks, who hosted the pilot, bowed out.
“I am a singer first I am not a game show host,” Marshall told his hometown paper, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, West Virginia in 2013, “that was just a freak opportunity. I had been on Broadway with Julie Harris and was going back to Broadway when I did the audition, and I thought it was a few weeks but that turned into 16 years.”
“The Hollywood Squares” was more strait-laced when it began, but early in its run a producer suggested they write jokes for Lynde, the ever-snarky comic actor who occupied the center square and would become as identified as Marshall with the show.
The first joke would set the template for the years that followed:
Marshall: “Paul, why do motorcyclists wear leather?”
Lynde: “Because chiffon wrinkles.”
“That changed the whole thing,” Marshall told the TV archive. “I had been a straight man. So working with comics was easy for me.”
Born Ralph Pierre LaCock in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Marshall would move around the state as a child, living in Wheeling and Huntington.
His father died when Marshall was 10, and he would live with his grandparents as his mother and sister, the actress Joanne Dru, moved to New York to pursue her career in show business. Marshall would soon join them.
At 15, he toured as a singer with the Bob Chester Orchestra. He also worked as an NBC Radio page and an usher at the Paramount Theater. He was drafted during World War II and stationed in Italy, where he made his first forays onto the airways as a DJ for Armed Forces Radio. In 1949 he formed a comedy duo with Tommy Noonan, appearing in nightclubs, in theaters and on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
He became a movie contract player in the 1950s at Twentieth Century Fox, appearing in films including 1959’s “The Rookie” and 1961’s “Swingin’ Along.”
Major starring roles eluded him in Hollywood, but he would find them in musical theater.
He starred opposite Chita Rivera in “Bye Bye Birdie” in London’s West End in 1962 — Lynde had played a major role in the Broadway version that he would reprise in the film — and played his first starring role on Broadway in “Skyscraper” with Julie Harris in 1965.
He would also appear in Broadway versions of “High Button Shoes,” “The Music Man” and “42nd Street.”
After “The Hollywood Squares,” Marshall would host a few other short-lived game shows, but mostly resumed his career as a singing actor, starring in more than 800 performances of “La Cage Aux Folles” on Broadway and on tour, and singing in the 1983 film version of “Annie.”
He was married three times, the last to Laurie Stewart in 1989.
The couple survived a bout with COVID-19 early in 2021. He was hospitalized for several weeks.
His four kids include son Pete LaCock, a professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Royals. Marshall is also survived by daughters Suzanne and Jaime, son David, 12 grandchildren, and nine great-great grandchildren.
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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 ...
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Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 2 students (age 6), the mid level is suitable for Year 3-4 (aged 7-8), and the high level is ...
Curriculum: NC. Years: 2 - 6. Download. Preview File. Available on the Plus Plan. A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their biography writing. Encourage your students to use this biography writing checklist when proofreading and editing their biographies. The checklist covers biography structure, language and features.
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"The Hollywood Squares" would become an American cultural institution and make Marshall a household name. It would win four Daytime Emmys for outstanding game show during his run and spawned dozens of international versions and several U.S. reboots.
It lists the main textual and grammatical features which can be ticked off by your kids as they write. These features include historical recounts, as well as the use of the past tense and third-person pronouns. Print out copies to give to your students as a reference, or hang the checklist as part of biographies display.
Use this handy example text pack to help you to either provide an ideal example for your class or moderate children's writing, according to the 2014 National Curriculum requirements for English. Twinkl Key Stage 1 - Year 1, Year 2 English Writing Non-Fiction Information Texts Biographies. biography writing autobiography features of a biography ...