Illustrate your stories

  Maybe you are not a writer, but this tool is going to inspire you to write your own story. Just go check storybird.com and go with the flow!
Storybird.com is an interesting website which helps us to design and illustrate stories that can be for children or people in general. It could be used for illustrate stories that you already wrote, but the site presents a set of images related to different possible topics you want to write about and you can select them according to the sequence of your story. That is why the same images can serve as inspiration to write for people that maybe do not enjoy writing. As teachers we NEED to find the way to catch our student’s attention and make them interested in what we are trying to teach them.
I am going to give you a couple of ideas to use this website in class and as homework.
In class
Create your own illustrated story and show it to the children. Then ask them to read it and comment the story but also the illustration it has. It will be different and at the same time interesting for them to read a book written by their teacher. It would be an incentive to start reading.
Homework
Show them how to use the tool and ask them to use their creativity and create their own stories at home and then, present it to the rest of the class.