Storybird
What is Storybird?
Storybird is a language arts tools illustrations and pictures are used to inspire students to write stores and encourages ongoing writing practice. Storybird is a fantastic site where students can create their own stories, comics, and poetry. Storybird helps students to get creative with their writing as well as boost their writing skills. There are badges and other rewards that can be earned throughout students writing practice that encourages them along the way.
Storybird is a language arts tools illustrations and pictures are used to inspire students to write stores and encourages ongoing writing practice. Storybird is a fantastic site where students can create their own stories, comics, and poetry. Storybird helps students to get creative with their writing as well as boost their writing skills. There are badges and other rewards that can be earned throughout students writing practice that encourages them along the way.
How can it be used in the classroom?
In the classroom story board can be used by all students. Storybird also aligns with common core which allows teachers to pick prompts that line up with their literacy lessons. Teachers can create a class project or students can pick a genre and create their own stories. Teachers can assign Storybird for individual use or as a group. There are also stories that students can read from other writers in different countries. Students can get creative and use their imagination to write stories and poetry as well as comment on their classmates work and provide meaningful feedback.
In our school this year the 2nd grade class used Storybird to create their own fairytale book. Towards the end of their fairytale literacy unit the teacher had each student get creative and write their own fairytale story. It was a great way to see if students understood the unit as well as allow them to practice their own writing skills. This was also used in upper grades 4thand 5th. With Storybird you can also make poems. The upper grades were allowed to go on Storybird and pick a piece of artwork that inspired them. They then presented their poems at the yearly poetry slam.
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Hi Ashley - what a fun way to create a visual representation of what you're learning. Students need opportunities to be creative! Often times in a classroom we fail to “show” students what we’re teaching because we are so focused on telling them what they should be learning and so these students walk away never making the necessary connections needed to understand the material. Truly unfortunate. Opportunities like these allow for students to step into a creative mindset where they can now express themselves more freely and create work that truly means something to them. This is a time for them to really engage and as you mentioned in the various activities that took place in your school, it shows the instructor what the student is actually taking away from your lessons and how that is being interpreted. It’s always fun to see how students perceive their world and allowing them to use art as a form expression can really help us better understand their needs and what we can be doing differently to modify lessons that are more engaging and fun!
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ReplyDeleteI love this tool! I am adding this to my "to do" list for the Fall! I love that there are so many options for the students to choose from and edit as they go! Your picture book was so cute and I am sure the kids will love creating their own. It seems so easy to use which is so important! I love that it gives students another way to write for a purpose. It is one thing to write on paper and turn it in to their teacher; but another to have an actual purpose for others to read what they have written.
That is so neat that parents can pay to have the book printed out! WOW! Such amazing ways to implement this into centers during guided reading or even creating books for our first grade buddies! It is truly a tool I will be using this Fall. I chose to learn about Adobe Voice; which has some similarities to Storybird. Great job!
~Toni
Hi Ashley ,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for introducing us to Storybird ! This looks like such an interesting tool for the classroom. I could totally see my students using this tool when we create comic book characters for our elements unit. I think this tool really will allow different styles of learners to explore their creativity. I think could also be a great tool similar to how your school uses it to bring classrooms from different grade bands together and give students the opportunity to read each others work. It would be awesome if there was a way to fund your students projects through donors choose and have them printed and added to the school library sos that students could literally check out one another's books. Thank you so much for sharing !
- Emily Dubicki