Activity 3 Digital Storytelling

For emergent writers, personal narratives are the best starting point. Fictional stories come later. First, kindergarten kiddos need to learn the mechanics of writing and build their confidence. Writing a story with multiple pages/parts comes later and even at the end of the kindergarten year, is for the most confident, capable writers. I do spend quite a bit of time teaching about sentences, though, and I think Storybird would be super for that! I think just one or two illustrations and one or two sentences about each is a way I would use storybird right away in class. Kids could dictate their ideas about the illustration. We could really talk about adjectives (describing words) and elaboration, and having your words match your illustration. Additionally, I like the exposure to different styles of illustrations.

Here is a "sentence" story I put together:

Here's another sample of simple sentences. I could have used another frog picture for this one...  but there wasn't a good option! Should probably preview the illustrations better before getting started.