All About the Author/Image
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Take a Photo Booth pic of yourself, slide it to the desktop.
Open a Google doc.
Insert the image into your google doc.
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.
When done, don’t print, share with your homeroom teacher and me
You can 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 __________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________.
Example:
About the Author
Maureen Devlin is a fourth grade teacher in Wayland, Massachusetts. She enjoys
writing, and spends time daily writing a blog, Google docs, paper journals, and
multimedia compositions such as movies and presentations. Ms. Devlin is also a mom
who has three sons: Ryan, Matthew, and Sean. She has been married to her
husband, Mike, for 25 years (that's a long time!). She is a sister too with four brothers
and a sister. Ms. Devlin also has 56 first cousins. In her free time, drawing, reading,
riding her bike, hiking in nature, and travel are Ms. Devlin's pastimes. In the year
ahead, Ms. Devlin looks forward to reading the many stories, essays, journal entries,
and informational texts that her students will write next year. Also, Ms. Devlin looks
forward to reading many books, writing often, and developing her own interest and skill
at writing.