Autobiography Writing Unit Year 4

High-quality resources focused on the theme of ‘One World’ and ‘Equality’. We taught this along side our sound unit as we focused on the biography of Stevie Wonder and Evelyn Glennie.

Writing Outcome - publish an autobiography in the style of ‘Little People, Big Dreams’.
Audience - class mates and teacher. Once published into a booklet, the children will add it to the class Library.
Purpose - recount past experiences.

Editable power points and resources.
Week 1:
Lesson 1 & 2 - exploring similarities and differences between biographies and autobiographies.
L3 - identify key sturcture features of an autobiography by re-ordering the cut up WAGOLL.
L4: identify key text features from the WAGOLL example.
Send home learning project for children to gather information.
L5: grammar lesson focused on using fronted adverbials of time.

Week 2:
L1: plan the beginning of an autobiography
L2: draft the beginning of an autobiography.
L3: plan the ending of an auobiography.
L4: draft the ending of an autobiography.

Weel 3:
Make edits and publish autobiography into the Little people, Big Dreams booklet. Add children’s physical photos.

Children really loved this unit!