• Creating Comics on your iPad

    Comics are very powerful pieces of writing.  Students enjoy reading and creating comics. Two apps on the iPad,, Comic Life and BookCreator, allow students to create their own comics.  One of the best ways to engage your students in a story writing dialogue activity, is to use Comics.   What better way is there to show how writing […]

  • Using Book Creator to Explore Non-Fiction Text Features

    Before you have students create a non-fiction book in Book Creator, you must explore the features in a non-fiction piece. Text features in a non-fiction piece of writing, is like story elements in a fiction piece of writing.  Just like you need to teach students about characters, setting, problem, plot and resolution before writing stories, […]