About Me: Personal Timeline
Choose important life events and place them on a timeline using drawings, sentences and optional dates.
- Year groups
- Years 2–4 (Key Stages 1–2)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Back To School, Holidays, Social Studies, Holiday & Seasonal
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Composition
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About this resource
Use this About Me Timeline Worksheet to sequence four personal events with pictures and sentences, adding dates where known.
The separate editable timeline template is a related resource; this download is a fixed PDF.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Select meaningful events from personal history
- Arrange life events in chronological order
- Write a sentence and possible date for each illustrated event
Teaching tips
- List several possible events and approximate dates before placing them on the timeline.
- Read the finished sequence from left to right to confirm that every event follows the one before it.
Skills covered
- Chronology — personal events are arranged by time.
- Autobiographical writing — pictures are paired with explanatory sentences.
- Temporal notation — dates strengthen the ordering of life events.
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Composition — develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by: writing about real events
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Personal timeline
- Chronological order
- Life events
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