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What Is It?
What Is It?
Storybird gives students the opportunity to:
Storybird gives students the opportunity to:
- Build writing skills through lessons & video tutorials
- Respond to grade-level reading and writing prompts
- Practice different genres of writing (picture books, narratives, songwriting, etc.)
Storybird Allows:
Storybird Allows:
Students to Become Authors
Students to Become Authors
- Individuals or whole class are able to choose illustrations to add to their own writing to develop digital picture books, longform stories, comics, or poetry.
- Students or whole classes can also compose other digital texts of a large variety of genres.
Students to become learners
Students to become learners
- Students are given the opportunity to read lessons and information about different types of writing.
- Students are given tutorial videos from experts on basic writing skills as well as various genres of writing.
- Teachers can assign tasks to students on the Storybird website.
Students to be challenged
Students to be challenged
- Students can choose to complete basic writing challenges which focus on foundational writing skills.
- Students are able to complete creative writing challenges which integrate various genres of writing.
- Teachers are able to assign challenges to a class.
Research Based
Research Based
Collaboration
Collaboration
Educators are recommended to "create an engaged community of writers" and to build classroom environments that help to enhance and foster collaboration among peers (Graham et al., 2012, cited in Friedrich, 2019, p. 37). Storybird gives educators the freedom to create classes on the website as well as assign tasks and projects to these classes. From this, teachers can assign students to partners or small groups to complete these assignments. Giving students opportunities such as these to work with peers will build interactive and communicative skills as well as enhance new ideas and build upon comprehension.
Brophy (2008) and Kaplan & Patrick (2016) have identified that value, competence, and social environment are three main factors that influence students' motivation to write (p. 52). Storybird helps to increase the value that students assign to writing as they are exposed to various genres and topics that they are interested in (comics, fairy tales, video games, etc.) Students are also provided leveled reading and writing activities which will result in increased competence. Students may work individually or collaborate with other students or a whole class, enhancing the factor of the social environment.
MOtivation
MOtivation
Reading & writing integration
Reading & writing integration
Graham (2017) explains that when reading and writing intertwine, students' writing and reading skills are both shown to be enhanced (p. 23). When using Storybird, students are able to complete reading and writing assignments that intertwine both reading and writing skills. Students are given the opportunity to read leveled texts that will enhance and help strengthen writing skills. On the other hand, students may be given writing challenges that will require reading before writing. These activities will allow students to build upon skills in both areas, enhancing their overall literacy skills.
References:
References:
Storybird. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://storybird.com/
ReinventED. (2015, January 20). Storybird Tutorial (teacher oriented). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0MfZEG6hcM
Graham, S. A., MacArthur, C. A., & Hebert, M. A. (Eds.). (2019). Best Practices in Writing Instruction (3rd ed.). The Guilford Press.
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