Simple tool to support Foreign language teaching

How I Use It

I teach French as a Foreign Language to kids from 5 to 11 years old in an international school and discovered Book creator during the first lockdown in 2020. At first, I would use it as teaching material, when I wanted my students to be able to access resources for our online lessons, as well as hearing my voice to help them practice their pronunciation at home, for example when we would work on phonics. Then progressively I used it to gather all new vocabulary learned in a new topic, illustrated and pronounced by my youngest students in order to help them memorize it and make them their own. Finally, I started to engage my students in some creative writing activities that they would write, read and illustrate using Book creator tools. I also recently tried the collaborative option, that my students immediately enjoyed and used to create beautiful common projects. Sharing the final book created together reinforces the community spirit, pride about the student's own work creation, is sharable with the whole family and is a beautiful memory of our school year. It is true though that my 5 years old students use more basic functionalities, but since I teach them every year until they finish elementary school, I see a real progression in their autonomy to use it, in the first years as a book provided by me to showcase their work, then slowly making them their own over the years and even teaching me some good tricks in the last years.