Story Creation Apps for Early Learners

1. Let Me Tell My Story:
Story Creation Apps
for Early Learners
Gayle Berthiaume

2. Storytelling promotes expressive language development,
both in oral and written form.
The storytelling experience assists children in
generating stories and encourages their dictation and
story writing.
(Nelson 1989)

3. Considerations
By Gayle Berthiaume

4. Developmentally
Appropriate
Interface
©Suddenly It Clicks!
From: “Using an iPad with Your Preschooler”

5. Images for Stories

6. PhotoBoothCamera
Pixabay Drawing Pad

7. Built-in Camera
■ Learning to take photos
■ Asking permission
■ Talking about the pictures
■ Making books or projects with photos
■ Sharing

8. Story Creation Apps

9. Tell About This
ChatterPix Kids
Shadow Puppet Edu

10. GarageBand

11. Puppet Pals HD
Toontastic 3D

12. The Making of a Digital Story
• Gather or create digital images and audio
• Make your story come alive
• Share your story
• Brainstorm ideas for a story
• Decide who is your audience and what is your purpose
• Write a script or a story
• Create a storyboard

13. Kidspiration for Brainstorming
Kidspiration Maps Lite

14. Kidspiration Maps Lite for Word

15. Storyboard
Name:
Group Members:
Scene 1 (Beginning) Scene 2 (Middle) Scene 3 (End)
Words Words Words
Camera or illustration Camera or illustration Camera or illustration

16. Book Creator
Pages
Explain Everything

17. Book Creator

18. Bats fly at night. They eat TONS of
insects. They really like mosquitoes.
People should like bats because they hate
mosquitoes.
By Mitch
Pages

19. The Story Spine
Once upon a time . . .
Every day . . .
But one day . . .
Because of that . . .
Because of that . . .
Because of that . . .
Until finally . . .
Ever since then . . .
The moral of this story is. . .

20. Once upon a time
there was a cute
cat who liked to
catch mice.

21. Every day
the cat caught
mice.

22. But one day
the mice did
not show up.

23. Because of that
the cat was
hungry.

24. Because of that
the cat got sick.

25. Until finally
one mouse
showed up and
helped the cat
get better.

26. Ever since then
the cat only
eats fish.

27. Create Your Story

28. Sharing Stories and
Favorite Apps

29. Thank you for encouraging your young learners to
tell their stories.
Gayle Berthiaume
GayleBerthiaume@SuddenlyItClicks.com
http://SuddenlyitClicks.com

30. Questions & Evaluation