Instant Personal Poster Sets: Read All About Me: Big Write-and-Read Learning Posters Ready for Kids to Personalize and Display With Pride!

I have been using these All About Me posters for years! I just purchased a new set to get ready for the next school year. It comes with a teacher's guide and a sample, but I am a creature of habit and use them the same way every year.I teach fourth grade, and I have a corner of the classroom dedicated as a Student Corner. This is where the kids can post things they are proud of, either school-related or not. I have an area for this poster, with a bulletin board border around it. I start the year off with a poster about myself on there. It is up there for Meet the Teacher, as well as the first week of school. The kids love reading it and learning more about their teacher!Towards the end of the first week of school, I assign a student to be the first featured student of the year. I give them the poster to take home, and they have several days to complete it and bring it back to school. Then their poster takes the place of mine as the student feature. Then again, in another week or so, I assign another student to take a blank poster home, and the cycle repeats until every student has had a chance to fill out a poster and be the featured student. When their poster comes down, I give it to them to take home.It is always exciting when a new poster goes up. I usually have a crowd of students standing there reading it, learning more about their classmate. The featured classmate feels special for that week, as he/she usually gets comments from the other kids or questions.I love the open-ended questions on this. While some are straight-forward like what grade they are in and when their birthday is, questions like "I am a star because....." or "I show others I care by...." really has the students looking within themselves and being able to brag on themselves a bit. It's really special. Students who are super-creative may color theirs and even decorate, but that's not required for those kids who have no interest in that. For the "This is a picture of me" section, some students attach an actual photo, while others draw a picture of themselves. They can really personalize it however they'd like.You get 30 blank posters in the package, as well as a teacher's guide and a sample. It has worked really well for me in the years I've been using it.

These posters are great! They are poster-sized, despite what the product description said when I purchased the item. Admin requires me to have a "random" Star of the Week, and because I didn't want to spend my own time and resources planning it I chose to use classroom funds for these posters instead.They are great! I send one home on Friday to the student I "randomly" select using equity sticks, and the student brings the finished product back by the following Friday to present to the class. So far everyone has loved filling this poster out. Some students drew pictures, some colored, some did a mix of both. It's a great organizer and style to be accessible by my early elementary kids who are just learning to read and write but would be appropriate for upper elementary as well.It's a super well-done and thoughtful poster with a lot of room and space for student creativity. I recommend it highly and will repurchase . . . even if admin stops this requirement!

I loved sending these home with my students the first week of school. Not only does this help me learn a little bit more about my class but it also gives the family an opportunity to spend some time together. Great family activity!

This product is a bargain. The posters are large and printed on heavy quality paper. This is a great "get to know ya" activity and also a wonderful way to pre-write for a personal narrative. After students complete this "All About Me" poster, have them write a timed-write personal narrative to help them better understand (and practice) the importance of details to make writing more descriptive and informative. I gave this to a teacher, and her class had a blast using these in a writers workshop. I also gave one to each of my kids and told them to take their time completing it and decorating it with style and then give it to me as my Christmas present. They were so excited!

The pages were nice sized. I will try to give grandkids a new one each year on their birthdays.

I attempted to use these in a 2nd grade classroom during the first week of school. It was a bit of a disaster as they are a bit to advanced for this age.The posters were great and provided a lot of room and prompts for the students to share about themselves in writing and coloring. However, in my classroom I found that the students were unable to read or understand some of the prompts thus they were lost and unable to complete the poster without a lot of one on one help. We ended up abandoning them. That being said these would be great for an older grade, maybe 4th and up. They would be a great get to know each other activity and allow for great lesson building from them such as a get to know your peer scavenger hunt or a game of who is like me.The posters themselves were really well made of high quality paper and dark print so they could be read from a distance. They are very large so if you have a lot of students be aware that you are going to need a lot of wall space if you plan to display these posters.

I use this every year for the first week of school! The kids enjoy it and it makes it easy to know their likes and dislikes.

It is a great poster to use in the classroom especially at the beginning of the school year ( Im a teacher).It helps me as a teacher to get to know new students better and students to get to know each other plus this is a great opportunity for every child " to shine and to be a star !"