Supporting Storytelling with Tech Infusion at BES

What happens when you mix a great book with a little bit of technology? You get a classroom full of empowered storytellers! The students at BES have been using technology to share their voices while building important literacy skills. Check out how these storytelling projects allow even our youngest learners to become published authors and digital narrators.

The Grade 3s at BES read "You Hold Me Up" by Monique Gray Smith and used the story as inspiration for writing their own book about showing kindness and supporting others.  Students brainstormed ideas together as a class and then each created their own page for the book.  We used the Book Creator app to put together our pages and some students also added their voice recording.  

The Kindergarten class at BES used technology to support their storytelling as well.   The Kindergarten’s read The Mitten by Jan Brett.  Then, we challenged them to retell the story by sharing a comment/phrase each character/animal might say.  This can be tricky for young learners as they have to shift to taking the character’s perspective, rather than just retelling the events of the story.  This capable group of Kindergartens was up to the task and had fun writing a script of what each character/animal might say.  

BES Kindergarten script for the characters from The Mitten

Next, we used the ChatterPix Kid app to record their lines from the script and make it look like each character was talking.   We used animal images sourced from Pixabay.  Check out the fun retelling video below:

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