My students are creating visual biographies. I created a sample one for them to practice evaluating

1. By Ms. Dedam

2.  He is a children’s author and
producer.
 He was born October 8, 1943 in
Columbus, Ohio.
 His parents are Annie and Lewis
Stine.
 He has two younger siblings,
Bill and Pam.
 His family call him Bob, not R.L.
http://rlstine.com/about/

3.  He married JaneWaldhorn in June 22, 1969.
 He lives in NewYork with Jane and his dog Minnie.
 He has a son who was born June 7, 1980. Matthew is a
composer, musician, and sound designer.
http://rlstine.com/

4.  He never studied hard. However, he was a B student.
 He considered himself horrible in Math and Gym.
 He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965 with a
Bachelors of Art in English degree.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1671355/thumbs/o-OHIO-STATE-UNIVERSITY-CAMPUS-facebook.jpg

5.  In his time, he has sold
over 400 million books.
 Which makes him the
best-selling children's
authors in history.
 This all started writing
when he was nine!
 After he graduated, he
went to NewYork to
become a writer.
 He started writing jokes
book, humor books for
teens.
 He created Bananas, a
crazy humor magazine.
(1975 and 1984)
 At first, he wrote under
the name Jovial Bob
Stine.

6. http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n11151.jpg
He wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind
Date, which became an instant best-seller!
Several scary novels came after, including
Beach House, Hit And Run,The Babysitter,
andThe Girlfriend.
See more at:
http://rlstine.com/about/#sthash.mbCQPyPQ.dpuf

7. R.L Stine wrote hundreds of books!
 Blind Date (1986)
 Fear Street series (1989)
 Goosebumps series (1992)
 The Nightmare Room series(1999)
 Mostly Ghostly series (2004)
 Rotten School series(2005)
 … And many more!

9.  Champion of Reading Award
 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
 DisneyAdventures Kids’ Choice
Awards
 ThrillerWriters ofAmerica Silver
Bullet Award (2007)
 Horror Writers Association’s
lifetime achievement award (2014)
 He was even named the author of the best – selling children’s
book series of all time.
 Stine had been named America’s best – selling author by USA
Today in the 1990’s – three years in a row.
http://www.famousauthors.org/r-l-stine
http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.ca/search?q=
R+L+Stine

10.  R.L stands for Robert Lawrence
 He has many alias names: Bob Stine, R.L.
Stine, Robert Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine
 His series, Goosebumps was translated into
32 different languages.
 He never received any of his ideas from
dreams, he says that his dreams are boring.
 He writes an average of 2 books per month.

11. What advice do you have for kids who want to be writers?
Read, read, read. Read as much as you can by as many
different authors as you can.That way, without even
realizing it, you build a good vocabulary--and you pick up
different ways of saying things, of describing the world and
the people in it. Nothing is as important for someone who
wants to be a writer as reading books by MANY DIFFERENT
authors.
So keep reading--and have a scary day!
--R.L. Stine

12. http://rlstine.com/

13.  http://rlstine.com/
 R.L. Stine. (2015).The Biography.com website. Retrieved
08:18, Jan 24, 2015, from
http://www.biography.com/people/rl-stine-20945371.
 http://www.scholastic.ca/goosebumps/books/stine/ideas.h
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 http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5866-rl-stine-biography
 http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/author/stine-r-l/