Children's author, Kathleen Krull, writer of many biographies, shares some tips for making biographies come alive. Perhaps her most interesting tips are to be nosy, and look for juicy details.

This nine-part learning module provides support for Launchpad's Toontastic App. This blendspace shares videos, screen shots, and written resources that will help students write biographies via the Toontastic App.

Discussing real life heroes and heroines and viewing their pictures will help students learn about reading and writing biographies. A writing rubric assessment is included in this series of activities designed to teach about heroes and...

Students will plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text. This instructional activity uses biographies since students can easily be able to write down factual...

Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.

Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to learners and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...

Typical lesson on a biography research project. Students choose a famous person, read a biography and do research online, and create a graphic organizer to teach the class about the person's life.

Great printable resource to help students write a report on a biography. Touches on major elements and encourages personal reflection.

Peter Landry, scholar of two universities in Nova Scotia, and head of a legal firm provides a website which he writes biographies. Landry discusses Antione De La Mothe Cadillac (1658-1730) and Cadillac's involvement and significance in...

Lesson in which young scholars are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with...

This tutorial has students follow a step-by-step guide to write their very own biography using that of Frederick Douglass as a model.

This husband-wife team conduct an online workshop that teaches you how to research and write a biographical sketch--a story about someone's life that tells a lot about who that person is or was. Along the way, you'll find research and...

In this lesson students use the format and structure of a mentor text such as A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden to write an interesting biography about a historical figure with an emphasis on idea development, voice, and writing...

Contains plans for nine lessons that ask learners to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...

This site lists biographies of Living Legacy Award recipients and other exceptional female humanitarians alphabetically.

This is a great math writing assignment. First, students learn about the patterns and shapes of polynomial equations and their inverses by making their bodies imitate mathematical concepts, using popular disco & 80's dance moves....

This is an interactive biography of Shakespeare; it features links to a Shakespeare timeline and an essay from one of Shakespeare's peer. It also includes questions for students to answer using the link to Shakespeare Biography WebQuest.

This website from a professor at Brandeis University provides a biography on Ralph Waldo Emerson in which his childhood, writing career, and his transcendentalist views are discussed. Included are links to related essays and a list of...

This is a detailed biography on American author Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945). Read about his immigrant family, his difficult childhood, and the development of his writing career.

Biographical information about Sue Monk Kidd from her own home page. The biography is rather extensive. Also includes a list of her writing awards.

Haissen is the author of many popular books for young adults. Learn about the success of his novels and his other writing work as a journalist. Also includes a list of published works.

Show your knowledge of dinosaurs by writing about them. Pick a genre from poems, newspaper articles, biographies, and many more. Write your own and/or read what others have written.

"Writing A Life: L.M. Montgomery" by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston is a short, well-written biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life that is available as a free download from this site.

This site explains what a biography is and outlines how to write an effective one.