Write About Series

The drawing activities in Write about Me by Elsie Wilmerding help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it. Children build their writing skills as they develop ideas that have personal meaning to them. The book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections. A great prelude to the Just Write series. Grade 1.

Children love talking about their lives--why not channel that impulse into writing? Write About Me focuses on students lives, and then branches outwards to observing the world around them. The book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections. The book also offers an introdcution to journals as a way to capture observations and possible writing ideas. Some writing fundamentals such as types of sentences, capitalization and punctuation are taught. Illustrations are by George Ulrich that lead students into writing with age-appropriate visuals. 58 pages, softcover; pages are non-reproducible. Grade 1.

The Teacher's Guide for both Write about Me and Write about My World suggests ways of introducing writing to the youngest students. The Guide also includes extension activites around the topics. The same Word Banks that appear in the student book are in the Guide for convenient reference. The Guide contains 12 book lists with titles directly related to the topics for student writing.