Toontastic looked amazing with great story structure but proved too difficult for my second grade students.

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Jennifer R.
Classroom teacher
Knotts Island Elementary School
Knotts Island, NC

My Grades 1, 2

My Subjects Math, Science, Social Studies

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My Rating 2

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My Students Liked It No

My Students Learned Yes

I Would Recommend It No

Setup Time More than 15 minutes

Great for Individual

Great with Advanced learners

How I Use It

I tried to use the app to spark my upper level learner's interest in publishing a piece of writing. I had my students check out the settings and characters available, create a per-writing plan in a notebook then create their cartoon one frame at a time while recording their story. It was difficult for my students to adjust to frame by frame dialog and narration.

My Take

My students were highly engaged at first. Some even wanted to enter the pirate contest offered by Toontastic last year, but they rarely finished what they started and needed one- on-one instruction for entire project. I would like to try it again with older students.

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Toontastic looked amazing with great story structure but proved too difficult for my second grade students.

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