Biography kit

Support young readers with the Beginning Biography Connections Kit. Includes extensive teaching resources to enhance reading lessons for grades K-2.
This easy-to-complete biography starter kit is an essential guide for starting your own life story project.
Biography page - A display page to introduce the meaning and purpose of biographies.

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Biography and Media Kit

Ever since the fifth grade, I was building SF/F worlds and starting novels. I was very good at starting novels, but they always fizzled out around chapter six. Around 1999, I decided to get serious about my fiction writing and worked from earlier notes on my fantasy world (see Where do you get your ideas? above). In a year or so, I'd finished a stand-alone fantasy which I hoped to publish. I did my research. At that time, one sent paper manuscripts and Writer's Market was the only way to find publishers, so I made a list of the six SF/Fantasy imprints that accepted unsolicited manuscripts. I sent off my manuscript, and waited nine months to receive the rejection (this was approximately 1999). After that, I realized I was down to five imprints, but only if Canadian publishers accepted U.S. authors. That's when I realized I needed an agent. Luckily, that was also the time I discovered the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. I went to the conference and learned about the publishing industry. I went back the next year, and the next, ad infinitum. After pitc

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Life Biography Starter Kit

Description

Starter Kit, Plus a One-Hour Professional Interview Session!

The Life Biography Starter Kit is a beautifully designed and easy-to-complete kit that helps you collect your stories, family history, and most important information in one handy spot.

It’s great for people who want to start writing down their life stories. Plus, it comes with a one-hour professionally guided interview session to share a few of your favorite or most treasured stories with a personal family historian who will turn them into first-person narratives for your kit.

What Makes a Legacy?

This do-it-yourself legacy kit contains everything needed to record important information. Favorite childhood memories. Family stories. Cherished traditions. Important life events and accomplishments. Your family tree. Instructions for your estate, heirlooms, and who to contact. Information and photos for your obituary. You can even write down care instructions for your darling four-legged friends. We’ve included six blank note cards and envelopes so you can write “

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When my class first started our biography unit, I realized they would need a lot of support and guidance to be successful. With this packet, your kids will get just that!

What’s included:

Read Alouds - A suggested list of read aloud biographies

Biography page - A display page to introduce the meaning and purpose of biographies.

Getting to know your subject - A page to guide beginning researchers in their efforts. This page is an excellent opportunity to practice citing sources and focusing on only the important facts.

My Voice - Teaching young authors that their voice and opinions, as much as the facts, are important in telling their story.

Story Map - They will be able to use this graphic organizer to organize their subject’s life as an interesting story for the reader using the facts they have gathered.

Drafting - Several choices included for students to use while drafting. They include opportunities for them to check to capitalization, punctuation, usage, and spelling.

Publishing - Several options for publishing a final product including essay pages or a mini