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You can choose to use the ones that fit your students best.

Lesson 7 Asking and Answering Questions

Readers ask and answer questions in their heads as they read to help them create meaning.

geyer kosinski biography graphic organizer

As always, I encourage you to model these organizers as you introduce them.  

Students must understand that events in a person’s life lead to outcomes.  

Share the stack of mentor texts along with the nonexamples of biographies (which should be expository nonfiction.)

Allow students time to look through these books and “notice” differences.

 

As you read a biography, work with the class to find important events in a person’s life and the impact those events had on the person.

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Use this collection of biography graphic organizers to help your fourth and fifth grade students explore biographies during reading workshop.

These biography graphic organizers will be a helpful tool for you as you are planning your biography unit of study.

This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from The Curriculum Corner.

Planning for a study of biographies

As you plan for your unit of study, your first action should be gathering high interest biographies for your students to explore.

These mentor texts should be good, clear examples of biographies.

 

Encourage students to look at the book they are reading and determine what they can learn from their character. These resources can be used to help students develop an understanding of the difference: Character Traits. 

We suggest using a biography that can be shared during class in order to model the differences for students.

 

You may choose to have students answer their own questions or to trade with a peer who is reading the same book.

Lesson 8 Cause & Effect

This is a concept which will take a great deal of modeling. This will help students to fully understand the expectations. This means that you should be able to find some shorter texts that will still challenge your readers.

Have the student write their own biography about the subject.  

It is important for students to understand that character traits are different from what the person looks like. Please let us know if you have any questions.  Throughout the unit, you might want to refer to these as nonexamples of biographies.

There are many informational text picture books that are written at a fourth to sixth grade level.

Part of our job is to help them find accurate and meaningful information when they practice searching.

We feel that providing students with practice with the skill of researching is meaningful practice.

We have created a collection of graphic organizers to help your students record as they are learning about famous people.

For students who might be overwhelmed by searching for the answers, it might be a good idea to help them as they begin.

Our products may not be sold. You can add this to your classroom librarym . This can be helpful when you want students to explore multiple biographies.

As you work to gather your books, ask students who they would be most interested in learning about.  

This graphic organizer gives students practice with this skill while asking them to record their thoughts.

 Encourage them to make notes on post-its and mark the spots in the text.

Have students choose a biography to read and complete this story map.

Remember to differentiate for your students so that each has a task that fits their needs.

Each of the 8 organizers has a different focus, but is presented in the same format.