Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. It is a fun, collaborative, storytelling website that can be an effective resource for teaching parts of a story, the writing process, promoting creativity, and more. Storybird also seamlessly keeps a portfolio of each student's writing development.

1. Developing Young Authors
with Storybird
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4. Examples

6. Guided Tour

7. Gift of Time

10. Mrs. Patterson
Classroom Examples and Uses

11. Noteworthy
• FREE!
• It requires minimal teacher preparation time.

12. Noteworthy
• Educators should sign up for the Teacher
accounts. Teacher accounts allow you to setup
classes and administer student accounts.
– Alleviates the necessity for student email
accounts.
– Makes it possible for children under 13 to legally
have accounts.

13. Noteworthy
• Educators should sign up for the Teacher
accounts. Teacher accounts allow you to setup
classes and administer student accounts.
– Storybird has safeguards for child online safety built
into it. Teacher accounts also help you with this.
– Student work can be made public or private.
– Teachers can setup assignments with directions and
deadlines that students will see.
– Teachers can specify that students use a
particular art gallery for an assignment.

14. Noteworthy
• The use of the artwork can prompt reluctant
writers and encourage deep reflection and
higher-order thinking.
• Students can benefit from writing for an
audience.

15. A Few Curriculum Connections
• Promote early writing -- even with student
created wordless picture books.
• Sequencing
• Main idea
• Elements of a story
• Propaganda techniques
• Practice with a variety of writing genres
(persuasive writing, mysteries, poetry, etc.)

16. Sharing
• What tips do you recommend?
• Will you be making any changes?

17. Teachers Can Use Storybird:
• To introduce themselves or the class rules on the first day of
school and at parent night.
• To create lessons and tutorials about any topic.
• As an easy strategy for keeping a portfolio of student writing.
• To promote the writing process.
• To help students better understand the parts of a story.
• To encourage higher-order thinking skills (HOTS).
• To promote creativity.
• To collaborate with students, colleagues, and other
classrooms.

18. Students Can Use Storybird:
• To write an About Me story the first week of
school.
• As an alternative strategy for submitting
research reports, book reports, and essays.
• For journal reflections.
• To create gifts for loved ones.
• To collaborate with others inside and outside
of the classroom.

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21. Presentation materials and
many other teacher resources
available at
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