Second Grade Biography Writing & Lab Reports {2nd Grade Writing Workshop Unit 6}

Biography and lab report writing lessons, biography articles for student research, writing rubrics, printable writing paper, posters and visuals, graphic organizers for planning, and more - for second grade students!

This 5 week nonfiction / informational writing unit will help you teach your second grade students to do simple research. Students will write biography reports and lab reports.

In this unit, students will write biographies about famous people by doing some simple research (20 different articles at a second grade reading level are provided for student use). Then, students will move on to writing lab reports about science experiments involving solids, liquids, and gases. Students incorporate those lab reports into nonfiction books.

This unit is designed to be taught toward the middle or end of the year. 

In this unit, students will learn how to:
- Take notes on a topic and use the notes to write a biography
- Write lab reports to describe what they observed during a science experiment
- Plan and write nonfiction books with true information
- Include examples, definitions, and comparisons in their books
- Organize the information in their books using a table of contents, headings, and page numbers
- Create text features for their books
- Write strong introductions and conclusions
- Use transition words in their writing
- Include adjectives and adverbs in their writing
- Use contractions and possessives
- Correctly use other writing conventions
- Revise and edit their work independently and with a partner

This unit includes:
- 21 detailed minilessons that will last about 5 weeks
- Daily language arts/grammar exercises that complement the minilessons
- Clear unit goals, daily objectives, and Common Core alignment
- Posters, visual aids, and materials to go with the minilessons (all color materials also have black and white versions included)
- Printable writing paper
- A writing stages display and materials to make a genre bulletin board
- A list of mentor texts to accompany the unit
- FAQs and important information to help you set up the writing workshop
- Rubrics, anecdotal note forms, and other materials to help you get organized 
- An informational writing rubric that you can use throughout the year
- 181 total pages of materials and resources

This is the sixth unit in an 8-unit writing curriculum series for second grade. CLICK HERE to view the complete curriculum.

Please contact Alison at Alison@LearningAtThePrimaryPond.com if you have any questions about the materials!