This 48-page autobiography unit takes pupils from understanding the features of autobiography through exploring Bill Bryson’s writing, analysing language and writer’s techniques, and ultimately planning and developing their own autobiographical writing.

What’s included:

• A complete, engaging 30-slide PowerPoint presentation
• 48-page printable pupil workbook
• Bellringer activities for lesson starters
• Bill Bryson extracts and comprehension activities
• Vocabulary and language analysis
• Focus on autobiographical voice, humour, imagery and structure
• Retrieval, inference and quotation analysis
• Creative writing tasks and planning activities
• Autobiography timeline and final self-evaluation
  There are plenty of opportunities for discussion, independent work, analysis and creative writing, making this a ready-to-teach unit with minimal preparation required. The unit also includes engaging activities such as a birth-year research project, time capsule, memory detectives and a final autobiography planning task.