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Women’s History Month… Biography Writing What is included: • Classroom poster-biography writing & researching • Student friendly search engines-choice of pages with qr codes and without • Student writing process flipbook • Student publishing paper • Draw your famous woman template This exclusive free lesson is practice in researching and biography writing. The month of March is Women’s History Month and there are so many amazing women in history for your students to research. You can choose a variety of women and have students pick or have students choose their own woman to research. There are classroom posters that you can use as a guide for a mini lesson on researching and writing. Students will complete the writing process in their flipbook and publish writing on the lined paper provided. There is also a page for students to illustrate their famous woman. This is meant to be practice in biography writing. ©Two Little Birds A biography is a text written to inform the reader about a real person’ s life. The author is someone other than the person featured in the text. The author tells the story of the person’s life. ©Two Little Birds 1 Choose a topic to research 3 Organize your information ©Two Little Birds 2 Search for information and take notes 4 Write your report. Biography Writing Using a search engine GoGooligans kidrex Kidsclick kidtopia Kidzsearch Use a QR code scanner to scan the codes. Each code will bring you to a new search engine. Make a list of 3-5 different websites you will be able to use for your research. • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ ©Two Little Birds Biography Writing Using a search engine On your device, open up your browser and type in the search engines. Type in your keywords and look for reliable websites that you can use for research. List 5 websites that you can come back to use. Kidzsearch kidtopia kidrex https://www.kidzsearch.com http://www.kidtopia.info http://www.kidrex.org Kidsclick http://www.kidsclick.org GoGooligans http://www.lures.info/childrens_ search/gogooligans.html • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ • _______________________________________ ©Two Little Birds Flip Book Assembly Copy pages front to back in the order they are in this document, not according to the numbers on the page. 1. Cover page and #5 front to back. The top half of the cover page will be upside down, that is ok! 2. #1 and #4 front to back. 3. #2 and #2 front to back. 4. Make sure that the boxes are lined up properly. Depending on your copier or printer, please test and see if you need to flip the pages to line up properly. When I print to my printer two sided, I choose: flip on the short side. 5. Line up the bottom of the flip book from 3-5. 6. Carefully flip the book over so number 2 lines up with number 3 and fold along the top. 7. You can simply fold or staple along the top!. ©Two Little Birds WRITING Biography Biography writing includes… Real information Birth information Challenges & struggles Important people Real pictures Childhood/family information Important events Why the person is famous Biography Writing: A biography is a text written to inform a reader about a real person’s life. The author is someone other than the person featured in the text. Use this checklist as you are editing: As you are rereading your writing, look for the following: Spelling Punctuation Capitalization Grammar usage Order (writing is in a clear order) Do you have a clear Introduction? Do you have a clear closing? Don’t be afraid to get your paper MESSY. Use your colored pencil to fix those mistakes! Read it and reread it again! Ask a friend to help too, a friend might catch a mistake that you have missed! Use a dictionary or a thesaurus to help! 5 ©Two Little Birds Editing EDITING: I can proofread and fix my mistakes. Get your colored pencil ready! As you edit, make changes. Editing is your chance to make things right! Your first draft was your chance to get your words on the paper, now it is your time to make them perfect! As you edit, use your colored pencil to make changes. Use these marks as you edit: To start a new paragraph ¶ ˄ To insert a missing word, letter, or punctuation mark. sp To check the spelling of a word. To capitalize a letter. To use a lowercase letter. To delete a word, letter, or punctuation mark. 1. Choose a topic… 2. Gather information… 3. Take notes… 4. Organize your information… 5. Write a report… 1 Biography writing PREWRITING: I can collect and organize my ideas and details. Topic: Where did she grow up? What was her childhood like? Who were important people in her life? REVISING: I can make changes to my writing to improve it. As you revise, have your pencil ready to make changes. Carefully reread your writing. Look for places you can add in details, adjectives, descriptions. You can add words or whole sentences. As you are rereading, look for any words or sentences that you can remove words or sentences that are unnecessary or repeated. Look for any words and sentences that are out of place. Can you move them? Moving the order of your writing can help your writing flow! Did you notice words in your writing that you may have repeated? Substitute those words with synonyms. Look at the beginning of each sentence and your transition words, make them stand out rather than repeat! All done? Go back & reread with your new changes! 4 Revising _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Closing: Write a few sentences to close your writing. You can wrap it all up, restate your topic, or remind the reader of your topic. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ What are some of her greatest accomplishment? How does she inspire you? Why is she famous? 2 prewriting DRAFTING: I can organize my ideas and write them down in paragraphs. my writing is in complete sentences. Introduction: Write a good lead to introduce your topic. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Body: Use your prewriting graphic organizer to organize your thoughts into paragraphs. Add in details and reread to make sure your writing flows. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 3 Drafting Women’s HISTORY MONTH By: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ©Two Little Birds ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ©Two Little Birds ©Two Little Birds
