Biographies: Names of People and Places

Yesterday, during our biography lesson, we continued to learn about the category famous people fall into.  We sorted many biographies into different categories.  The categories we came up with are:

-         First at Something

-         Leader

-         Scientist/Inventor

-         Artist

-         Musician/ Actor or Actress

-         Athlete

The biographies that we learned about have been added to our “Biographies are About…” anchor chart (pictured below).

Today we learned about a special text feature in biographies: Names of People and Places.  Students learned that we can expect to find the names of people and places in biographies, capital letters are a big clue.  Students went on a names scavenger hunt in biography books.  Below are photographs from our scavenger hunt.  We took a photograph (using the iPad) of a page in a biography, and we then uploaded the photograph to the app, “Explain Everything”.  From there we were able to highlight the names of people and places.  Names of people were underlined in red and names of places were underlined in blue.  We also discussed how students know whether a word beginning with a capital letter is a person’s name or a place.  Some of our clue words to help us know it is a place are (born in, lived in, moved to, grew up in).

 

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