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Showing posts with label Story writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Story writing. Show all posts
Monday, December 8, 2025

Our Grade 6 & 7 Authors Shine using Canva and Book Creator Together

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My Grade 6 and Grade 7 computer class learners were hard at work, a while back, writing and publishing their own creative stories using Canv...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Our Grade 2 'Dot' map stories to celebrate International Dot Day 15th September 2021 -

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I am always excited about Dot Day on 15 September. What is Dot Day? It is HUGE around the world! Dot Day was inspired by Peter Reynold'...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Grade 7s created stories from pictures and turned them into videos

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I love thinking of different ways to get my classes writing and seeing themselves as writers and story tellers. I used the following method ...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Create stories from selected images and publish them in Book Creator (Grade 6)

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One of the things I love doing at school is getting my students to write stories in different ways. I want them to see themselves as writers...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Story writing #1: Using 'Design Ideas' in PowerPoint to create attractive story backgrounds with Grade 5

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I am starting a series of story-writing posts today. This is the first one of three.  One of the teachers at my school wanted help in publis...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Stories inspired by the Quiver app for International Dot Day

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My Grade 1-3 classes have thoroughly enjoyed being part of a team blog doing activities together for International Dot Day on the 15th Sept...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Our Grade 3 'What happens next?' stories

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Can you add an ending to any of our stories? My Grade 3 class has been having such a lot of fun with prepare preparing for Inter...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Storybird #6: Tips for writing original stories

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Storybird is my favourite free story writing application on the web. I use it with my classes all the time, and I love all its tips. This is...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Google Slides: Publish a Google Slides story in different ways on the Internet

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Google Slides is great for writing stories. One can use half a slide for the story and the other half for the illustration.  My Grade 5 clas...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Ways of illustrating digital stories

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We had a number of really excellent stories from teachers who discovered their writing gift within them. Something that fascinated me duri...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

An African Storybook Project Report back from Stirling Primary in East London

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Here is another class hard at work creating stories for the African Storybook Project.  I have written about the African Storybook Project ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Creative Writing #12: An African Storybook Project report back from Princess Primary School in Roodepoort

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Thank you so much to those who are sending in their stories about how their writing is going for the African Storybook Project. This is a f...
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Creative Writing #11:An African Storybook project report back from Karin Horne

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I am always so thrilled when teachers send in some information about their writing for the African Storybook Project. I would like to thank...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Creative Writing #10: An African Storybook Project report back from The Rock Academy…

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I am SO thrilled when teachers send reports on how their Digital Storytelling writing is going for the African Storybook Project. This is a...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Try using Storybird with its beautiful art for inspired writing sessions

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Storybird can be accessed at  http://storybird.com/ . This is a wonderful free creative writing site where you can create your own stories ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Use YouTube stories to inspire your class to write...

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There are many ways to get your class to write stories. This idea is to use YouTube videos to inspire writing. You could use these in diffe...