About the "About the Author"

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• Insert the photo of you and your first grader on the last page of your book.
• Title the page “About the Author”
• Use the template below to guide your work as you write about yourself as an author.  Write using the “third person.” See my example at the bottom of the page.
• When done, read over your work.  Make corrections.  Use spell check to check your spelling (click the word, then click control and spacebar) helps you to check the spelling.  
• (If you have a partner, each of you should write an about the author.)

You could use the template below to guide your writing as you tell about yourself as an author.

_____________________________ is a _______________________ at

______________________________.  He/she enjoys ___________________,

_____________________________ and ____________________________.

When it comes to writing _________________ likes to write about _______________,

________________________ and ____________________.  ___________________

finds the most challenging part of writing to be _______________________________.

When ____________________ gets older, he/she hopes to ____________________

___________________________________________.  His/her advice for

writers young and old is __________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________.

He/she enjoyed writing this book for _____________________________ and hopes you enjoy 

reading it!

Example:

About the Author

Ms. Dorsey with her newest grandchild:  Kaladin

Claudia Dorsey is a junior high teacher at American Fork Junior High in American Fork, Utah.

She usually teachers seventh graders because they are the best (until you become eighth graders, and then, of course, eighth graders are best!)  She enjoys reading, writing, gardening, hiking, and spending time with her children and grandchildren. As of this writing she has six children (which will most likely stay the same) and nearly nine grandchildren (which she hopes will continue to increase in number)!

  When it comes to writing, Ms. Dorsey spends a lot of time writing tests and other assessments, tests, examples to use in lessons, and other stuff for school. She also likes writing stories about her own life (memoirs), nonfiction essays, and fantasy stories. She has nine blogs that she updates regularly -- for school, family, church, and for her own enjoyment.

She finds the most challenging part of writing to be finding time to do the writing that she doesn't HAVE TO do. In the  year ahead, Ms. Dorsey looks forward to reading the many stories, essays, poems, scribbles, journal entries, arguments, and informational texts that her students will write . Also, Ms. Dorsey looks forward to reading many books, writing often, and developing her own skill in writing.

Her advice for writers young and old is to write every day. She has enjoyed preparing this example for you, and hopes it will be helpful.

Some of Ms. Dorsey's Other Grandchildren

Thank you to Ms. Devlin:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HI3FryfBWuEbXDsArqi-FlgOkworUKw82i8ty24GP60/edit#
I adapted this from her assignment.



Another example -- from a blog author: