Biography
 

Sharlene Warner
Coventry Elementary School
Elyria
Biography
Writing a Non-fiction Narrative
2
Language Arts/ Social Studies
Biography

The sources listed here will provide enough information for beginning  to fluent readers to do research on a famous person.  The goal of this project was to generate and answer basic questions about a person and produce a non-fiction narrative in the form of an illustrated book.

Writing
     372.62
     English Language - Composition and Exercises

Biography
     920 or 923
     Person's name
     Person's profession

 

Professional

 

 Videos Reference
Is That a Fact?
Teaching non-fiction writing
K - 3

Tony Stead


 

Series: Animated Hero Classics
Nest Entertainment
Schlessinger Media

Christopher Columbus
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Florence Nightengale
Helen Keller
Pocahontas
Louis Pasteur
Wright Brothers

 

 World Book Encyclopedia
Web Sites:

 

    
InfoPlease.com: Almanac: Biography

Biographical Dictionary

 

 The Dr. King Timeline Page

Harriet Tubman

 Ben Franklin

Thomas Edison

Books

 

    
Series: Lives and Times
Heinemann Interactive Library

Susan B. Anthony  1998
   Peter and Connie Roop
Walt Disney  1999
   Wendy Lynch
Diana Princess of Wales  1998
   Haydn Middleton
Mohandas Gandhi 1998
Mother Teresa  1998
  John Barraclough

Series: A Picture Book Biography
Holiday House
   David Adler

Louis Braille  1997
Amelia Earhart  1998
Jesse Owens  1992
George Washington  1989
Eleanor Roosevelt  1991
Sojourner Truth  1994
  

Series:  Rookie Biographies
Children's Press

Abraham Lincoln  2002
Jackie Robinson  2002
Harriet Tubman  2002
George Washington 2002
Alexander Graham Bell 2002
Benjamin Franklin 2002
   Wil Mara
Mae Jemison 2003
   Nancy Polette
Dr. Seuss  2003
   Dana Meachen Rau