This is Me English Pack - Lesson 4: Autobiographies | Writing an Autobiography

This Year 6 Writing Tasks Pack offers your class the chance to reflect on their time at primary school and record some of their favourite memories. They will think about themselves and their own successes and achievements, big or small, as well as how they can help others achieve their own successes.

All 20 lessons in this complete This is Me Year 6 planning pack come with plans, slides and printable resources, providing you with everything you need to teach this topic. 

NB: The different genres of writing included in this complete pack can be taught in any preferred sequence. Download the free overview below to gain a better understanding of the lesson content. 

This set of five complete lessons tasks your Year 6 class with reflecting on their lives so far as they write their own autobiography.

The Features of an Autobiography KS2 lesson will begin the topic by allowing the children to read and discuss different examples of the genre. Subsequent lessons focus on the organisation of their writing as well as discussing formality in the Formal and Informal Writing KS2 lesson.

A perfect finish to the final year in primary school, these lessons round up the topic by providing some ideas on how the children can present their writing in order to create a keepsake of their time in primary school, or publishing their work online.

This set of Year 6 Poetry lessons contains poems and poetry writing lessons around the theme of Year 6 leavers.

The lessons begin with Year 6 poems to perform, challenging the children to think about the intended effect the poem will have on the audience and how they can use their performance to portray this. Following lessons provide you with different ideas to have your children write their own poems to commemorate their time in primary school. Why not use these in your end-of-year leavers' assembly?

Including four completely resourced lessons, providing detailed lesson plans, lesson slides and printable resources, you will have everything you need to inspire your Year 6 class to write poetry about themselves and their classmates.

In these six non-chronological report lessons the children will write their own reports on their favourite hobby.

The lessons include a vocabulary lesson which looks at finding meanings of unknown words as well as a lesson on the use of the passive voice. The children can use these in their final report. The lessons provide the opportunity for children to become experts in their chosen area through research and organisation of knowledge.

A great set of lessons for the end of the year, or at the start to help get to know your class! All printable resources are provided along with lesson slides, detailed lesson plans and differentiated resources.

In these two lessons, the children will write an informal and a formal letter, thinking carefully about the structure of their writing.

Beginning with writing a letter to their future self to express their hopes for their future, the children will discuss and explore informal letters. Then, in the following lesson, the children will write a formal persuasive letter expressing their ideas for items to go into a time capsule.

Containing everything you need to teach these two lessons, this lesson pack includes lesson slides, lesson plans and differentiated lesson ideas.

Challenge your Year 6 class to create either a short scene for a play or a filmed scene showing their favourite memory from primary school.

Perfect for an end-of-year project to include in a leavers assembly, these two lessons ask your class to create their own storyboards and scripts to prepare their short scenes.

Containing everything you need to teach these two lessons, this lesson pack includes lesson slides, lesson plans and differentiated lesson ideas.

Download this fun and friendly lesson to challenge your Year 6 class to offer advice in the form of instructions on how to have a great final year at primary school.

Perfect as an end of year lesson, this lesson offers your class the chance to reflect on what made their year successful and memorable. They can choose what they would like to include in their advice, making it academic, social or personal recommendations.

This lesson comes with everything you need to teach this engaging lesson, including a detailed lesson plan, lesson slides and accompanying printable resources.

This Features of an Autobiography KS2 lesson will begin the topic by allowing the children to read and discuss different examples of the genre. The children will discuss the differences between a biography and an autobiography and how this affects the writing.

Children will either attempt the style of writing as they write an autobiography as a fictional character or read through different examples of autobiographies in order to gain a more in-depth understanding of the genre.

The resources in this lesson include a homework sheet which children can use to research information about themselves at home in preparation for writing their autobiographies.

This lesson allows the children time to reflect on their experiences in their lives and to make notes on these events to use in their autobiographies. A homework sheet is provided to allow children to research relevant information about themselves in preparation for this lesson.

The included lesson slides lead a discussion on what sorts of things should be included in an autobiography and provides examples of different ways this information can be included in their writing.

The provided printable resources give children some support in organising their ideas into sections, ready for writing their first draft.

The lesson slides included in this lesson help to lead a discussion about how formality in writing can change based on the content of the writing and the audience.

Children will think carefully about what grammatical changes, as well as vocabulary, make writing more formal. They will then attempt to spot how writing can shift between more formal and informal tones in the context of an autobiographical piece of writing.

This lesson allows the children time to complete the first draft of their autobiography. The included lesson slides provide modelled examples as well as the model text provided in the printable resources for this lesson.

The children will spend time writing their autobiographies in line with the checklists and model texts they can use to inspire their own writing.

This lesson requires children to revisit their writing in order to proofread and improve sections identified in the plenary of the previous lesson. The included printable resources provide you and the children with prompts and ideas on how they could improve their writing. Along with the lesson slides, these can be used to model how to improve their writing.

As well as editing, this lesson plan also provides you with different ideas on how the children could present their writing, turning their ideas into a scrapbook keepsake of their time in primary school or publishing their writing in an online book.

This Poems to Perform Year 6 lesson has your class explore, discuss and perform the poem 'Don't Quit' by John Greenleaf Whittier. Your class will use the provided lesson slides to help lead their discussions about the poem They will be challenged to think carefully about the intended purpose of the poem and how this can be portrayed in their performances.

The discussions will include how they can perform the poem well, exploring tone, volume, pace and other elements with the use of a video.

This fully resourced Year 6 Poetry lesson uses the poem studied in the previous lesson to inspire some of your class's own resilience poetry.

The lesson slides included in the download help to guide discussion and planning their poems, including the collaborative generation of vocabulary that the children can share and use when piecing together their poem.

The printable resources provide you with the suggested methods of extending your class as well as suitable supporting materials to allow your class to experiment and play with their writing as they create their poem.

This is an excellent lesson to help you celebrate your class and who they are. The children will help to collaboratively generate words to describe people's appearance, personality and mannerisms. They will then use this to create a list poem about the members of the class.

The included lesson slides for this activity help you to lead a discussion and explain how list poems can be structured. They offer suggestions about how your class's poem can be structured and offer different ways for the children to challenge themselves as they write the poem.

The download for this lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, lesson slides and accompanying printable resources to give you everything you need to create a beautiful poem to commemorate your class's final year in primary school.

In this final poetry lesson, the children will turn their attention to acrostic poems and think carefully about how they are written using different poetic features. This lesson focuses mainly on the use of enjambment across two or more lines of the poems.

The included lesson slides guide discussion about some example acrostic poems including an abecedarian poem which you can use as a model to challenge your class to write their own.

In this initial lesson on non-chronological reports, your class will explore some unknown technical vocabulary that is used in non-fiction writing. They will discuss the different strategies they may use to determine the meaning of a word using the context as well as replacing the word with synonymous vocabulary to see if they fit.

This lesson relies on the children discussing the vocabulary used by the author and thinking carefully about the change in meaning and/or effect when we replace words in a sentence. They will need to justify and reason their choices for synonyms and come up with a best-fit scenario when investigating an unknown word.

This lesson comes with everything you need including lesson slides, detailed planning, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

This lesson focuses on reviewing the features of this genre and identifying them in example texts. The children will identify the features, and evaluate the effectiveness of their use in different examples. They will assess the texts as a whole and suggest different ways they would improve the use of different structural features as well as grammatical features.

The included lesson slides in this lesson pack help you to lead discussions around this genre and how to create an effective non-chronological report. The example texts provided offer examples of both good and bad uses of the features and encourage the children to think critically about the writing.

This lesson takes a closer look at the passive voice and how it is used in non-chronological reports. The children are challenged to identify the active and passive voice and change sentences into the alternative.

The activity ideas provided challenge your children to select a sentence and identify if it is the active or passive voice before changing it between the two voices. Alternatively, the children can identify active sentences in a non-chronological report extract and decide if the sentence sounds better in the active or passive voice, giving reasons for their choices.

The variety of differentiated activities provided in this lesson pack will make sure you have an appropriate activity for your class to explore the passive voice. All the resources you need are provided along with answer sheets to save you time!

In this lesson, the children have the opportunity to show off what they know about their favourite hobby or topic. The aim is to collect and record all the information they know about their chosen hobby in one place, ready to use in their non-chronological reports. In order to become experts, the children will also have the opportunity to research information to fill any knowledge gaps they may have.

The lesson slides included in this pack provide you with tailored questions to draw out the discussions about the hobbies as well as discussions about effective research. These ideas can then be used by the children when collecting information on the lesson's worksheets.

In this lesson, the children will create the plans for the non-chronological reports they will write in the following lesson. They will look closely at the information they collected and decide on the subheadings they will use to organise and guide their reader.

Using the 'Fancy Something Different?' (FSD?) activity, encourage your class to create a double-page spread in their books for their report, using scrap paper to map out and organise information into sections.

This complete lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas, lesson slides and printable accompanying resources.

In this final non-chronological report lesson, the children will spend time drafting and presenting their reports on their favourite hobbies. The included lesson slides focus on and discuss the structure of paragraphs, specifically topic sentences. They will use this discussion to influence their own paragraphs.

Alternatively, the children can use presentation software to turn their report into a presentation on their favourite hobby, using the same grammatical and language features discussed in previous lessons.

This complete lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas, lesson slides and printable accompanying resources.

Challenge your class to write a letter to their future selves that they can read in one, five or ten years.

In this lesson, the children will reflect on their lives and discuss what they would like to remember in the future. They will also think about their hopes for the future and where they would like to be in one, five and/or ten years.

All the printable resources you will need are included as well as a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas and lesson slides to lead discussions and modelling.

Challenge your class to write a persuasive letter to propose ideas for a time capsule.

Use the included lesson slides to revise and explore the different persuasive techniques that the children can use in their writing. The slides also contain a short model text that the children can use to base the structure of their own writing on.

As an alternative activity, why not have your class send their ideas as a persuasive email?

In this initial playscripts lesson, the children will choose a favourite memory from their time at primary school to turn into a short play scene.

The children will discuss how they can use a storyboard to describe a short scene which can be used in a leavers assembly. They will think about the actors in the scene as well as the dialogue needed to tell the story. Alternatively. Why not have your children storyboard a filmed scene including the shots they will need to film?

This lesson comes with all the printable resources you need as well as a detailed lesson plan and lesson slides.

This lesson challenges your Year 6 class to turn their storyboards into a script for their short scene.

The included lesson slides ask your class to think carefully about the information a script provides and who needs this information. The children can alternatively write a script for a filmed scene, including the shots needed and how these shots should look.

These lessons do not cover the rehearsal/filming/editing process but the initial writing is a great way to start an interesting and memorable project for your Year 6 class at the end of their time at primary school.

Challenge your Year 6 class to write advice in the form of instructions on how to have a great final year at primary school.

Your class will need to think about their audience in order to write a set of fun and friendly instructions for the upcoming Year 6 class. Why not include their writing in the school newsletter or as a blog on the school website?