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Back before selfies and Instagram feeds the way to tell your own story was to write it.

And sure, your average Key Stage 2 student probably won’t have accumulated enough life experience for the next Long Walk to Freedom, but they can probably do a better job than half the ‘celebrity’ books that hit the shelves in the run-up to Christmas.

And that’s before you’ve even started with these great resources.

1 | Characteristics of an autobiography

This nifty little resource not only includes the great quote in the pic above, it has a good summary of autobiographical writing, explains where the word ‘autobiography’ comes from, and has a few good examples of autobiographical passages to boot.

Check it out here.

2 | Roald Dahl book topic

The Great Mouse Plot was one of the stories from Roald Dahl’s childhood autobiography, Boy, where he and his friends pranked the loca

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Exploring biographies

Watch: What is a biography?

A biography is a non-fiction text about someone's life.

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Watch: Chronicle of Author Hawking

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Here's another life of a scientist, that time Academician Stephen Hawking.

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Who are biographies about?

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Biographies and autobiographies

Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?

Biographies and autobiographies are both types of non-fiction stories about someone’s life.

They are both based in fact but there are some key differences between them.

Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains the differences. Listen carefully and join in with the activities.

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Similarities and differences

Time for a recap on those similarities and differences!

Both biographies and autobiographies:

• tell the story of someone’s life

• are written in the past tense

• follow chronological order (the order in which things actually happened)

• are non-fiction

Biography	Autobiography
Written by a person about someone else’s life.	Written by a person about their own life.
Written in third person (//)	Written in first person ()

To see some examples, watch the first minute of each of these clips.

The first clip is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks and the second clip is written as if it were an autobiography. Can you spot the differences?

Watch: Rosa Parks biography example

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