Writing Skills using Storybird.com

The website  https://storybird.com/   is an interesting tool online which can be used for enhancing writing skills by using beautiful images.

You can sign up for free and create your  content for  poems, short stories , long books and picture books.

I happened to use it in February to describe some tasks which  I had  carried out in an EVO SESSION  about  CLIL  - year 2018 - (1) but  it is  so powerful for creative  writing for language learners . Ideally it is the perfect tool for starting " creative writing"  in English with younger students but it can be used with adult learners too.

If you get access to the website you will see that you can find texts for reading  https://storybird.com/read/   if you choose  create    https://storybird.com/create/  you will be  given images which you can use to begin  writing your text or your poem.

What you have created online and is public can be shared on social networks too, in addition if you want you can also take part in competitions and earn badges.

For educators  there are special courses and I am sure that they will be  challenging. I might take them to see which interesting  tips  they suggest for  teaching  writing.

Here is  my short poem for  celebrating the  arrival of the new year: I just had to choose the image and  the words and I created something which any child could do while  he/she might be rewarded with a badge for creating another  poem.



https://storybird.com/poetry/poem/gz4nye5uxd/

HAPPY  NEW YEAR!

Tiziana  Angiolini

(1)  This is the link to my narrative board for CLIL  https://storybird.com/books/my-narrative-board-technoclil-2018/?token=zuu87aqkze

The story is not public so it cannot be embedded.