Stories are aligned with both CCSS and State standards and are a cross-curricular journey for students to read and create stories using Primary Resources to document accuracy and relevance. Teachers can create, assign, and grade activites for stories.
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Community Review for Awesome Stories
My Take
AwesomeStories is unique from other platforms because it allows for student creativity, higher-level thinking, and authentic learning--all of which are valuable 21st Century skills that will be necessary for their success in the real world.
How I Use It
This product is wonderful for encouraging student research using primary source assets that are available within the site. The storybuilder encourages all materials used to be correctly cited through the citing table located right on the storybuilder page.
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Dana A.
Sandie L.
La Jolla, CA
July 26, 2016
AwesomeStories is a great way to keep students current!
AwesomeStories is a great teaching tool. It makes it possible for every student to stay on task. If a student needed to miss class, it was easy to make up the assignment at home. I posted assignments on my classroom blog, and created an AwesomeStories page for easy access. The content on AwesomeStories is current and constantly updated. There are a variety of teaching tools are available for educators to use.
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Melissa P.
Media Specialist
Glynn Academy
Brunswick, GA
July 21, 2015
Great learning tool for students, parents, and educators
This is a wonderful teaching tool that I could not live without. I have had students create stories, complete specific learning tasks aligned with the standards, research a topic of their choice, and use this site as a way to access primary documents. I like that there are so many resources (videos, images, text, audio, website links, etc.) available on the site for free.
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