National literacy strategy year 6 biography examples

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This booklet contains examples of units of work for teaching children in Year 6 as part of the National Literacy Strategy.

The seven units are drawn from all three terms in Year 6. Some of the units were written for the Year 6 Exemplification booklets in 2001-2002 and are reproduced in this publication with supplementary resources and/or guidance. Other units are new.

Elements of a biography for students

The units cover reading and writing objectives in three non-fiction text types, narrative, poetry and plays and related sentence and word level objectives. The suggested length of these units varies from one week to three. The five-week revision unit prepares children specifically for the Key Stage 2 test. It covers narrative, poetry, and non-narrative read