Section outline

  • Welcome to Week 8 Term 3

    Learning intentions:

    • we are EXPLORING/FOCUSING on the olympics and understanding  that a biography is a piece of writing that tells the story of someone's life but is written by another person.Biographies also need to be engaging and descriptive to keep the audience interested.

    • we are EXPLORING/FOCUSING on the olympics and analysing biographical writing requires skills in investigation, analysing information, writing concisely and chronologically. 

    Success criteria: 

    • I can locate some key facts in a biography
    • I can identify the main features in a biography
    • I can use those features to write a biography

    Literacy activities

    • Assessment : Writing a Biography on a New Zealand olympian.