Students used a site called Storybird to write a book about the character word “courage”. This site allows students to click on hundreds of characters that could be used in their project. After deciding on their character, they created a 5 to 10 page book telling about a time when their character had to show courage. This site is free to teachers to set up a class and make assignments. However, if you want to be able to check the projects in progress or have a grading option, there is a fee ($69/year for 150 students).
Site: http://www.storybird.com/
THE TALENT SHOW by mm010 on Storybird
My students loved this project and were very engaged in the creative writing process. This assignment did lead to additional mini-lessons on careful editing practices. I definitly will use this site again. However, I would share books before beginning project with correct capitalization and punctuation to emphasize good editing practices. I would also like to try to find non-fiction pictures to add text.
Nancy-what a cool project! Allows for tons of creativity with your students. Anyone know of any other sites like this one that would allow for creation of student books with nonfiction pictures?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this!!! What a great way for students to create nice work.
ReplyDeleteGreat final outcomes!!! Love the process you went through to get to these adorable stories.
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