Scribble My Story

Scribble My Story 
Encourage your students to create and customize stories!  There are 6 free story starter books included and 1 free recordable blank book! The app includes access to stickers, backgrounds, a drawing tool set, and an audio record option. Books can be shared via email or read directly from the iPad.
• All About Me
• If I were a Mermaid
• My Dino Book
• My Pet
• I can Fly
• My Vacation
• 1 Blank Book for freeform custom audio and illustration

Classroom Applications:

• Creative Writing
• Writing Fluency
• Emerging Readers
• Art and Drawing

Collins Big Cat Reading and Writing Apps

Collins Big Cat has Reading/Writing Apps that are wonderful for primary students. These apps contain animated books that have audio and visual effects. After students read the books (or have the books read to them within the app), they have the option to create their own stories within the app. Students select backgrounds, objects, characters, and text boxes. They can create a single page or multi-page books with beginnings, middles and endings. After they write their stories, they can record the text within the app. The only drawback with this app is there is currently no way for the student writing to leave the app. 

There are 8 apps currently available for download.
Collins Big Cat: Around the World Story Creator
Collins Big Cat:The Farmer's Lunch Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: The Steam Train Story Creator
Collins Big Cat:It Was A Cold Dark Night Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: My Bike Ride Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: In The Garden Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: At the Dump Story Creator
Collins Big Cat: Playing Story Creator  


Classrooms Applications:
Reading Comprehension
Student Writing
Story Elements
Reading Fluency

Story Me App

Story Me is an app that allows you to take photos and create a collage, comic strip, and/or cartoon with them. You can add captions, thought, or speech bubbles to add content to the final product. There are 81 different layouts you can choose from when deciding how you want your story to look. You can also change the effect of your story by choosing an effect to add to the overall look (cartoon, pencil, or plain). When you have completed your storyboard, you can share it easily by emailing it, printing it, or even saving it to your Camera Roll. This app is currently free in the iTunes app store.


Here is an example of what one of the finished stories might look like from your classroom:

Classroom Applications:
*Students can highlight an historical figure's key accomplishments from a particular time period (ex. Paul Revere's role before, during, and after the American Revolution)
*Sequencing a story read
*Showing first person point of view of a character in a literacy group
*Students can draw their own pictures, use the iPad camera to take photos of their own work and use those pictures in the creation of their project. (No copyright issues!)



Bluescreen - It

Bluescreen-It! is a fun app that allows your students to "visit" and become a part of a time period or location by placing them into the scene.  Simply find your background scene, take a picture of students in front of a blue or green screen, and then mash the two together using the Bluescreen-It app. Have students dress and hold props to match the scene to really make the experience meaningful.  Just be sure that students avoid wearing green clothing if using a green screen and avoid blue clothing if using a blue screen.



Classroom Applications:  Science (ie. place students in space), Historical Studies (ie. place student on Ellis Island), Springboard for Writing, Class Posters, Import into FaceTalk or iMovie app to create a video

Venn Diagram and Timeline App - Read Write Think

Venn Diagram is a graphic organizer app that allows students to organize their thinking and/or show their learning.  Users can add 2-3 overlapping circles to their Venn  

   Diagram.  The completed diagram can be saved to the Camera Roll. 

Classroom Applications:
Comparing and Contrasting
Share Facts Learned
Showing Relationships

 

Timeline is an app that allows students to display information in sequential order along a line. Click the timeline to add an event or item and then add a label, a description, and an optional image. The final timeline saves to the Camera Roll.



Classroom Applications:
Historical Data
Biographies
Sequence of Events (science lab, classroom activities, etc.)
Numberline

 Both of these apps were created by the International Reading Association/Read Write Think. They have other apps: Theme Poem, Diamante Poem, Acrostic Poem and Alphabet Organizer. Search the app store for International Reading Association. These tools are all also available online along with other student interactives.
 

bookPress

The bookPress app is a free tool to create digital books. There are templates to create a children's book, poetry book, cookbook, a picture book, or a storybook. You can also use a blank template to create any kind of book you wish. Bookemon, the publisher, provides bCloud storage for your books.  Your completed books can be viewed through this app or read online. From the app you can also choose to order print copies of your book.


Bookemon also provides edCenter, a free, private, secure environment for teachers and students to create, collaborate, and share their books. Email addresses are not required for student accounts. This video provides a brief introduction and overview of this app:

Classroom Connections:

• write a class book about a field trip
• research and write biographies of historical figures
• create a class memory book
• publish student narrative writing
• create expository "how to" manuals
• publish student poetry anthologies
• create a book to document STEM activities and scientific explorations
• create a leadership book of ways students demonstrate the 7 Habits

Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard Lite

Bill Atkinson's Photocard Lite is an app that you can easily create postcards that include text and an image. You can add images from your camera roll (including images you have saved from the web to your camera roll).

Tips:

• This app works the best when you hold your iPad in portrait mode. It lets you see both the image and the writing. 
• It will keep one postcard at a time. Starting a new postcard will erase the previous postcard.
• Tap outside the signup stuff - you don't need it.
• Document images from the web using the caption option underneath the picture. 
• From student iPad in portrait mode, click on the arrow on the bottom left to save the postcard to the camera roll. You can then use Webdav to upload the image to the network. 

Classroom Applications:
Write a postcard to a book character or author.
Write a postcard to a historical figure or as a historical figure.
Write a postcard about a historical event as if the student was there.
Write a postcard to their parents talking about a science lab or other classroom event.
As a class, write a postcard to parents about a classroom activity.
Teachers can individualize postcards to students and parents as a classroom communication tool.