Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to compose an example biographical text to match the genre features and style of biographies to describe the life of a king or queen that might have ruled Britain in the past.

The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how to structure and format a biography of an example Tudor monarch including the use of commas to separate phrases and clauses in the text.

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.