Features of Biographies

A Biography is best explained as:

• The history of someone's life written by someone else.

• The story of someone's life written by herself/himself.

• A fiction story written by a novelist.

Biographies are usually about:

• Anyone in the world that can write a book.

• Anyone that have done something important and been recognized by society.

• Famous people who want to fullfin a dream to publish a book.

Biographies are fiction texts.

• False

• True

If one wants to write a biography of someone important, it's necessary to:

• Research about this person and organize data in the right order.

• Use a blog to get all data is enough.

• Copy the work of one person on Youtube.

A good biography must be well written to call readers' attention. To do so, it must be:

• Organized, engaging, full of pictures/diagrams, and short.

• Interesting, organized in life phases, full of pictures, diagrams, and be trustworthy,

• One page long, organized, interesting, full of pictures and diagrams.

This is a feature that all well written biographies have. Not the ones from Raz-kids.

• Chapters

• Study Guide

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• Colorful drawings