Little Bird Tales is a tool that children can use (with an adult, most likely) to create online books with pictures, illustrations, text, and voice. I think that this would be an EXCELLENT tool for my upcoming 1st grade class. First graders are at the stage where fluency is progressing and imagination is flourishing. With this website, they can create their own stories, draw illustrations, and read their stories out loud for others (and themselves) to listen! How neat is that?
With my experience in 4th grade last semester, I can see how they would love to do this also. They come up with the wildest stories, and when they have a creative short story assignment, turning in a plain piece of paper can be boring. How cool would it be to assign them to transform their stories into neat visual representations that they and their friends can view over and over? I'm a huge fan of this idea.
Not only does it challenge students as writers to think out of the box and write creative stories worth sharing, it also expands on the fluency piece of literacy in which students are constantly improving their reading abilities. To practice reading out loud, knowing that it will be recorded online, is a great incentive to "do your best work."
Watch the video above, which was posted by the creators of the website, to get a better understanding of how this website works.
AUDIENCE: Elementary age students who are writing stories, drawing pictures, and want to record themselves reading their work out loud.
PURPOSE: See above! Writing, drawing, and reading your own stories! So cool.
USABILITY: So simple! Very user friendly and easy to follow directions.
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