StoryKit is my "go-to" app for teaching the writing process with K-5. It utilizes images, text and voice to digitize student essays.

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Frances N.
Frances N.
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This is an excellent app for teaching the writing process. Students learn the interface easily and move between their handwritten essay into the digital world easily. I highly recommend it.

How I Use It

I use StoryKit exclusively with third graders when they do case studies of specific countries in Social Studies. I couple it with dropbox and preselect the images students will use. This eliminates problems with photograph copyright issues. Students research country facts, write their essays by hand, then move their work into StoryKit, reading the essay aloud. I embed the image onto the school wikispace, adding a link to their work on the StoryKit server. Parents love to hear their children's voices, and I grade their digital essays against the student-created rubric.

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Talhia E.
Talhia E. Teacher Versia Williams Elementary Fort Worth, TX
November 25, 2014

Great interactive way of making stories using students voice.

I like that the students can record their voices and they can pick their own pictures to create the storyboard.
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Madeline A.
Madeline A.
August 8, 2014

Great story app!

This app has a lot of great features...it allows students the chance to read and create their own stories by using their pictures and record their voice. One downfall is it can be confusing for students at first. Teachers need to make sure they go through the app with the students as a whole group and really work using a lot of practice before letting them free on their own.
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Common Sense E.
Common Sense E.
May 2, 2014

Creative and easy to use story creation, free app!

Teachers and students enjoy this app because it is very user friendly and easy to use. I like the way students can either upload, take a photo, and/or draw a picture on the pages. They can create text on the page around the images. I would like for the app to allow the student to see the picture as they are typing text (rather than it going to a separate page for the text). For workflow and sharing, it would be great if this app worked with Dropbox to allow all stories to be uploaded from the iPads into one folder for parents/students to access. Overall, this is a great app for checking student understanding in multiple areas of the curriculum.
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