Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text about Henry VIII to explore the structure of biographies and a worksheet to model how to convert sentences from a biography to match other text genres.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose different types of sentences to match the structure and format of biographies and use the sentences to express opinions about a topic.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate different non-fiction texts about the lives of royal monarchs from British history by writing an example biography for a Tudor monarch that might have ruled Britain in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.