More suggestions from WriteReader

Here’s another blog post with suggestions for using WriteReader at home.

WriteReader at home

Here’s an interesting blog post on how to use WriteReader during our remote learning time.

Diversity and WriteReader

This blog post from WriteReader has step by step directions for a diversity lesson plan.  This might be a nice project for your students.  If you are not using WriteReader (for a variety of reasons), I still think this elementary lesson plan could be adapted for older learners with a variety of applications.

I love you because

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Instead of using ChatterPIX (and then creating an iMovie), Amanda Telesco used WriteReader and had each student answer the prompt “I love you because..” both with an illustration and their voice. The result was a wonderful Valentine's book she shared with their parents. Please click here to read the book.

Authors from the third grade

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Karen Swierczek’s third-grade class has really embraced their inner author!  Karen shared a few of almost 100 books her students have created on WriteReader.

I’m sure they would appreciate your feedback as they hone their writing skills!

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Extreme Weather- WriteReader Style

 

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Are you interested in extreme weather?  Beth-Ann Bulla’s and Lauren Roman’s third-grade students have become weather experts.  They recently shared their meteorological research by using WriteReader.  This was the first time they had used the application and the students loved it!  We even had some time to record their voices (one student told me that recording his book online was like being an actor with a scrip!).

Please share your comments and I will make sure the authors see your feedback.

WriteReader for elementary learners

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If you have seen me in your elementary school in the past few weeks, there is a

good chance I was working with a class on WriteReader.  This is a free easy to

use ebook creation site that offers several features that are perfect for the

grades 1-3 learners.  

These features include:

1. Auto Adjusting font (so the text will shrink to fit on the page).
2. Embedded image library (including some icons making it easier to search) making images searched safe and painless.
3. Ability to restrict page type (I think the image and text one works best)
4. Recording ability (I was in the hall with several students as they recorded page by page- one of them commented to me “It’s like being an actor and reading from a script!”) Listen to Norah's recording by selecting the play button on each page.
5. To share or not to share- the teacher can decide in other students can read the books.  You can easily share the books outside of WriteReader with a link.

If you are going to try this with your students, I would definitely have them

prepare the writing ahead of time.  I would also make a class ahead of time

(while the Google Classroom options worked, I think it was a little limiting for

the teacher.)

Lori Herschkowitz shared the above examples from her second-grade authors. These

are not the ones we made in class- once the students start creating- it is hard to stop them!

If you read their books- please leave a comment on this post.  I’m sure they would

enjoy the feedback.