Teaching biographies to 2nd graders

This year, I found out that the all of the second graders at my school would need to read a BIOGRAPHY of a famous person and then write a report on it!

So I created an Easy Biography Graphic Organizer and Book Report Lapbook for them!

Features of a biography pdf

It turned out to be a GREAT way to introduce them to writing a first biography!

So while my first graders were writing their insect reports (see last week’s post on that!) I needed to have my second graders working on their biographies.

So what is a combination class teacher to do? The biography reports were similar in format to the insect lapbook so that I could try to work with both groups at the same time. Luckily, I was able to introduce the concept of the biographies and do a practice one with the second graders alone one day when all of the first graders left on an all day field trip.

Thank goodness!

Basically, I think that the procedure I did actually worked out prett