Autobiographies for kids

When students are looking for a new book to read, I go to the shelves and hand pick a stack of books for them to peruse.

Biographies for middle schoolers

Biographies for 12-year olds

Biographies for kids

Autobiographies for 10 year olds

3rd grade autobiography examples

I’ll start the process by asking them what they’ve read lately and what they liked about those books. This strategy works because it is built on choice and trust. I’m enthusiastic about books and I never force a book on a kid. They get to choose what to read.

It’s also a solid strategy because it gets my students reading the “right” book faster.

Biographies for 4th graders

Full disclosure, I first learned it from the The Book Whisperer and then made it my own with some tweaking. Donalyn Miller has some great strategies to get kids reading. You can check her out here.Having explained that part of my strategy, you’ll understand how easy it is to slip a really great biography, autobiography or memoir into that stack of books.

It is exciting to me when I see a kid venture out of their “preferred” genre and introduce them to the often mind blowing experience of reading the true stori