Educational+Objectives



*Storybird is a free online service for families, friends, teachers, and students to collaborate in creating short, visual stories together that can easily be shared. This site makes it easy for students of all ability levels to create short, visual stories in a kid-friendly environment. It also promotes imagination, literacy, and self-confidence.

*Once a student selects a topic and the artwork appears, they simply begin writing a few words or a sentence and easily dragging and dropping a few images from the digital desktop. This format is great for students just learning how to write sentences or fluent writers working on enhancing their writing skills.

*Students will build on many key standards that are stressed every day These include: taking turns follow along cooperation letter recognition letter sounds writing complete sentences correct punctuation following a theme social skills (through social stories) reading fluency basic computer skills exposure to various types of technology (web 2.0)