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Noteworthy FREE! It requires minimal teacher preparation time.

Noteworthy Educators should sign up for the Teacher accounts.Teacher accounts allow you to setup classes and administer student accounts. Alleviates the necessity for student email accounts. Makes it possible for children under 13 to legally have accounts.

Noteworthy Educators should sign up for the Teacher accounts.Teacher accounts allow you to setup classes and administer student accounts. Storybird has safeguards for child online safety built into it. Teacher accounts also help you with this. Student work can be made public or private. Teachers can setup assignments with directions and deadlines that students will see. Teachers can specify that students use a particular art gallery for an assignment.

Noteworthy The use of the artwork can prompt reluctant writers and encourage deep reflection and higher-order thinking. Students can benefit from writing for an audience.

A Few Curriculum Connections Promote early writing -- even with student created wordless picture books. Sequencing Main idea Elements of a story Propaganda techniques Practice with a variety of writing genres (persuasive writing, mysteries, poetry, etc.)

Sharing How will you implement this? Ideas for letting students use these tools.

Teachers Can Use Storybird: To introduce themselves or the class rules on the first day of school and at parent night. To create lessons and tutorials about any topic. As an easy strategy for keeping a portfolio of student writing. To promote the writing process. To help students better understand the parts of a story. To encourage higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). To promote creativity. To collaborate with students, colleagues, and other classrooms.

Students Can Use Storybird: To write an About Me story the first week of school. As an alternative strategy for submitting research reports, book reports, and essays. For journal reflections. To create gifts for loved ones. To collaborate with others inside and outside of the classroom.

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