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__**Description **__ Storybird is a simple publishing tool. It allows artists to share their work, and writers to write and publish stories inspired by the art available on the site. Storybird has some incredible art submissions to choose from. It can be a collaborative process. Storybird members can write a story with the friend next to them or with the friend or relative on the other side of the country. It is a free site. You can read, write, and share stories for free. As a writer you can embed your story in a blog, email your story, or for a fee download and print your story. They do offer printing services. You can have your book published as a hard cover or paper back, and you can do fundraising projects using your work.

There are three different types of accounts available with Storybird. A regular account, which would be for a single writer over the age of 13. A teacher/class account, which requires some school and class information. Finally, there is an account available for children under the age of 13. As this is a site for children, They have a section on their safety features. A few of their safety features, they don't offer a live chat feature, beyond an email address they don't ask for any personal information, as the writer you control what you share, your stories can be public or private, finally Storybird reviews all stories submitted for public publishing.

__**A little about Storybird in their own words: **__ media type="custom" key="19193884"


 * __My Storybird Sample __**

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__**You can view the TeacherTrainingVideos.Com Storybird tutorial here: **__

[]This is a great tutorial. It demonstrates how to search the art, how to create, publish, edit and share a Storybird.

__**Using Storybird in the classroom **__ At the end of the lesson(s) the students should be able to: Talk about their friends using adjectives. Describe what an adjective is and how to use them. Create and publish a new Storybird. Write simple, complete sentences using adjectives to complete a Storybird about their friend. Great use of Storybird to learn to identify and write using adjectives.
 * Objectives **

01 Reading: Students will use phonetic analysis to read, write, and spell grade level text 02 Reading: Students will develop accuracy, phrasing, and expression while reading grade level text 03 Reading: Students will build literary, general academic, and content specific grade level vocabulary. 05 Writing: Students will apply the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit and publish writing using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other standard conventions appropriate for grade level 06 Writing: Students will write for a variety of purposes and audiences in multiple genres. 08 Speaking & Listening: Students will develop and demonstrate active listening skills across a variety of situations. 09 Speaking & Listening: Students will develop reciprocal communication skills. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">10 Multiple Literacies: Students will research, summarize, and communicate information in a variety of media and formats (textual, visual, and digital). <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">As a class we will discuss the parts of speech talked about in previous lessions. We will talk about working with adjectives today. Teacher will read an adjective story book. __Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?__ By Brian P. Cleary.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Standards: Reading/Language Arts **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Anticipatory Set **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Book: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? By Brian P. Cleary <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Paper for adjective maps <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">White Board/ELMO to share/demonstrate Storybird site <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Computer lab time or access to laptops in the classroom (may need multiple lab times to complete) Laura, You will need parents email address to set up accounts for children younger than 13. I would create a permission slip that parents would need to fill out about a week or two before you start. I played around with creating an assignment and found that it was very quick and easy. I would plan on just spending one day on teaching students how to choose artwork. You might want to see if some of your parents would be willing to come in and help too. This is an excellent spot to have your school librarian assist you. She could do a group project where students utilize the Smart Board to come up and put together one example of a book. This book would be something nice for the librarian to link to her webpage to show examples of student work. Once students have completed their book, you could link each book to your webpage. Parents would need to be notified that Storybird is an app on iPad and they can view their child’s work. Kim Gunter Here is an example of the type of form I think you should send home.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Procedures **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher discusses book with class. What kinds of words did they use in the book? Discusses describing words or adjectives with the class, make a list with the words provided by the students. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Idea: Put this adjective list onto quizlet and share with class.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher asks students to think of one friend they would like to write about. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Allow the students to pick any friend even one not in the class. Some may find it less intimidating if they can pick a friend who is not in the class.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher lets students share their choices with the class, making sure to describe the friends they’ve chosen.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students make a web using their friends name in the middle, and adjectives to describe their friends. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Nice graphic organizer approach.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher introduces Storybird. Shares some published Storybirds with the class
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher demonstrates how to view and search for different art on the site. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I would ask a student to come up and show the class at this point to determine their level of understanding.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher demonstrates how to start a Storybird and how to publish a Storybird.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will use their adjective maps to create a short Storybird about their chosen friend.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will share their finished Storybirds with the class. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What kind of assessment?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Materials **

Renee Maile's comments are in purple.
=== You could use this web tool along with quizlet easily. They seem very compatible in your lesson plan. Once the students put together their adjective list, they could put it into quizlet and share their adjectives and meanings along with images with the class. Another addition is to add a rubric and assessment. Your assessment could cover their presentation to the class and/or their understanding of Storybird or it could not focus on their presentation technique as much and just on their understanding of the use of Storybird. I would invite parents to the presentation day. If all parties agree, I would also publish the class choice of the top Storybird's. Great idea to have the adjective map. I would also embed the winning Storybird on the schools or classes website. The digital gold stickers would also be fun to apply to students work for a job well done. I would encourage my students to continue to add to the classroom library on Storybird using assinged themes. I would also encorage this to be used as a classroom fundraiser. Fundraiser's are free at Storybird and at $5.oo profit per book, the class could utilize it as a fun math learning opportunity as well. ===

Comments by Allyson Jesus I think this is a great way to teach adjectives! I think you could do some cross curriculum by having the students create a adjective story board about things you are learning about in science or in social studies instead of friends. I really liked your idea you did a great job.

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