Fourth grade biography unit

Biography crafts engage kids in learning. Let’s look at five possibilities.

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First, to focus on character traits, try a foldable. If you’d like kids to refer to events in the person’s life, create social media posts or build biography cubes. To bring in history, use double timelines.

And lastly, if you’re pinched for time, make cute little tube characters.

Ms. Sneed Explains 5 Biography Crafts

Our favorite fourth grade teacher, Ms. Sneed, sat at the back table with her student teacher.

Fourth grade biography unit

“Let’s continue planning our ELA block,” she said. “Today, we’ll work on our biography unit.”

She pulled a thick file folder from her teaching bag. From it, she pulled out a set of typed lesson plans.

“As you can see, we’ll start the genre study with picture books. Then kids will read full-length biographies. Instead of boring book reports, I’d like them to do some