Write About Series

The drawing activities in Write about Me by ElsieWilmerding help children bridge the gap between thinking andtalking about an idea and writing about it. Children buildtheir writing skills as they develop ideas that havepersonal meaning to them. The book features large spaces fordrawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks,and steps that lead young writers to add details to theirwriting and make content area connections. A great preludeto the Just Write series. Grade 1.

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Children love talking about their lives--why not channelthat impulse into writing? Write About Me focuses onstudents lives, and then branches outwards to observing theworld around them. The book features large spaces fordrawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banksand steps that lead young writers to add details to theirwriting and make content area connections. The book alsooffers an introdcution to journals as a way to captureobservations and possible writing ideas. Some writingfundamentals such as types of sentences, capitalization andpunctuation are taught. Illustrations are by George Ulrichthat lead students into writing with age-appropriatevisuals. 58 pages, softcover; pages are non-reproducible.Grade 1.

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Make teaching writing simple! This Teacher's Guide forboth Write about Me and Write about My Worldsuggests ways of introducing writing to the youngeststudents. It includes extension activities around the topicsfor easy reference, plus the same Word Banks that appear inthe student book are in the Guide for convenient reference.The Guide contains 12 book lists with titles directlyrelated to the topics for student writing.

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