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Scribble Press is a wonderful iPad application that can easily be integrated into a literacy classroom. Scribble Press allows students to create an E-Book. The application can be used to create E-Books by students in the younger grades and the upper grades. For those students who are younger and who have trouble with writing, there are pre-made books that have a fill in the blank feature. Once the blanks are filled in, the student is free to illustrate their creation.
For older students who are practiced in the writing process, there is a blank book feature where students can create their own books with their own writing. The books can be as long as the students would like and they can still illustrate it just the same. The app is very easy to use and very visual. Many reviews and tutorials have been created and are available through YouTube.
My favorite part of this application is the publishing feature that this application has. You can save the book as an E-Book on the application, export it to iBooks, publish it on the Scribble Press website, and even order a hard copy of it! Not only can it be shared digitally, but the option to have it shared in hard copy is something that is amazingly inspiring to students. Having a printed copy of their work would reinforce all the effort they put in throughout the year!
My sixth graders have been very active in the writing process lately. We are getting ready to do an "Author's Day" celebration to celebrate their writing and the hard work they have done. Each student has a piece of writing that they have drafted, revised, edited and peer-edited. The last step of the process is to publish their work.
There are various forms of publishing, but one that is absolutely acceptable is E-Books. I designed a lesson introducing students to the application and allowing them the freedom of playing around with the application and discovering all its different features. To show them how the E-Book will look when it is finished, I created an "All About Me" book for me to share with them.
The attached lesson walks through the process of the day and explains the activity in greater detail. As the students are in 6th grade, I wanted the lesson to be more discovery based than where I teach them how to use it. They are so technologically savvy that I know they'll get the hang of it much quicker than I did!
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