Laura Purdie Salas

Writing the World for Kids

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Freelance Writing

Here are some of the types of projects I’ve worked on. Does it seem like I’d be a good match for the materials you need written? Please contact me if you’d like to discuss a project.

Reading Comprehension Passages

Poetry

Goals

  • Expose kids to good poetry
  • Meet readability specs
  • Provide enough content for required items
  • Support the assessment of specific standards

Some Types of Poems I’ve Written

  • Informational poems
  • Stories in verse
  • Rhyming poems
  • Free verse poems
  • Biography poems
  • Fairy tale/fable retellings in poems
  • Funny poems
  • Poems in various poetic forms
  • Paired poems and prose
  • Paired poems

Informational

Goals

  • Share accurate, interesting content
  • Provide enough content for required items
  • Support the assessment of specific standards (chronological structure; compare/contrast structure; implied main idea, etc.)
  • Meet readability specs

Some Types of Informational Passages I’ve Written

  • Straight exposition
  • Recipe
  • Product review
  • Museum brochure
  • Craft
  • Letter to the editor
  • Persuasive letter
  • Biography
  • Advertisement
  • Website
  • Radio broadcast
  • How-to
  • Newspaper article
  • Yearbook page

Literary

Goals

  • Tell an engaging story
  • Provide enough content for required items
  • Support the assessment of specific standards (point of view’s affect on narrative; theme; characterization, etc.)
  • Meet readability specs

Some Types of Literary Passages I’ve Written

  • Contemporary stories
  • Scenes
  • Reader’s theater
  • Fable
  • Tall tale
  • Fractured fairy tale
  • Diary entry
  • Historical fiction
  • Stories with a lesson
  • Postcards
  • Fictional letters

Series Books on Assignment

Goals

  • Share accurate information or a good story in an engaging manner
  • Appeal to readers, including specifically identified audiences, such as reluctant readers, ELL students, etc.
  • Match the other books in an existing series
  • Support publisher-specified standards

Some Types of Series Books I’ve Written (click on links to see examples)

  • K-2 nonfiction picture books
    • sample 1
    • sample 2
    • sample 3
  • K-2 poetry books
  • Rhyming nonfiction
  • Leveled readers – fiction (see Stanley Shadow, level U) and nonfiction
  • Hi-lo nonfiction
  • Upper elementary nonfiction

Materials for Educators

Goals

  • Accuracy
  • Clarity
  • Inspiration

Some Types of Educator Materials I’ve Written

  • Teacher Tips to Accompany Lesson Plans
  • Lesson Plans

Assessment Items

Goals

  • Assess the specified standards
  • Write clear items
  • Avoid unintentionally misleading distractors
  • Avoid bias

Some Types of Assessment Items I’ve Written

  • K-6 ELA
  • 5-8 ELA

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