ELA5, CSS, Sferrazza

You've read about TedXKids@BC, Alaina Podmorow, and Terry Fox. There are some amazing young people in our province. A biography is true story about a real person in which important information and major events from the person's life are described.

In this lesson, we are going to look at some specific writing skills related to biographies: purpose, organization, starting paragraphs with main idea sentences, and how to revise to make a biography stronger.

(Activities in this lesson are adapted from Klobuchar, Lisa, Diane Zahler, and John Aardema. Nonfiction Writing. Monterey, CA: Evan-Moor, 2011. Print.)