Author study biography

Get your students interacting with literature in a new way with an author study. This activity is an engaging way to get students to learn about author’s craft and build connections between literature and the real world.  Read on for everything you need to dive into your very first author study.

I’m sure you’ve planned plenty of in your classroom, right?  But have you ever thought about doing an author study with your secondary students?

(If not, you totally should.) Think about the ways we traditionally introduce our students to new authors.

Author study biography

Do you share the basic facts? Do you make a brief presentation? Or maybe you just jump right into the text at hand.

But here’s the thing—none of those have the students rolling up their sleeves and digging in. While there are several benefits to assigning an author study project (more on those in a moment), one of my favorites is that it is a student-centered activity.

And that, my teacher friend, is when the magic happens