Inspire young authors with a story writing for kids technology project. In TechnoStories, primary and elementary students create storybooks. Google Docs or Microsoft Word templates make learning word processing skills easy for young writers. Fun story writing activities show students how to write, illustrate, edit, and publish stories. Upon completion, authors share their work during story time.
Language Arts and Digital Literacy Skills for Grades 1-3
Lessons follow the stages of the writing process. To start, they complete a planning sheet to sketch out ideas for a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Then they use a book template with a title page and three story pages to write the first draft. Next, students learn to use electronic editing tools to proofread and correct errors. Then the story is published by sharing a link. Finally, students reflect to identify their strengths as writers.
Engaging Story Writing Activities
Children ages 6-8, write stories such as My Puppy, My Day, and About Me. Activities gradually build in difficulty. Optional activities challenge students with keyboarding tasks, advanced word processing techniques, and the creation of a flipbook.
Sentence Starters to Support Learners
Suggestions spark inspiration, such as “What a surprise…” or “A funny thing happened…” In addition, a list of story title ideas stir young imaginations: Lost in Space, A Visit to Dragon Town, The Littlest Pony, and many more.
Age-Appropriate Assessment Tools
TechnoStories includes a writing reflection and storybook checklist for the students. For the teacher, assessment resources include a detailed technology skill summary, story marking sheet, and ISTE standards correlation.
Format text to look like its meaning. Experiment with different typefaces, sizes, and colors.
Assignment 2 Illustrate My Day at School
Learn how to search, filter, and insert images. Apply picture styles to decorate each story page.
Assignment 3 Finish the About Me Story
Apply word processing skills to complete an "About Me" story. Describe what makes them unique.
Assignment 4 Plan Your Story
Use a planning sheet to organize story ideas. It must have a beginning, middle, and end.
Assignment 5 Make a Storybook
Write a story using a template. Sentence starters support reluctant writers.
Assignment 6 Complete Your Storybook
Proofread the story using a checklist.
Assignment 7 Share Your Book at Story Time
Print or pdf the story. Share with family and friends.
Integrate Technology in the Classroom
Optional Story Writing Activities for Kids:
About the Keyboard: Identify commonly used keys.
Be a Keyboard Detective: Practice typing capitals, spaces, periods, and symbols.
Insert a Saved Photo: Decorate the title page with a saved image.
Story Writing Ideas: Book titles inspire young writers.
Make a Flip Book: Animate the story pages turning.
Story Writing Activities | Word Processing for Kids
The TechnoStories project can be used as a meaningful way to develop basic keyboarding and word processing skills. The activities gradually build in difficulty. To start, a simple skill is introduced and then students are given an opportunity to practice it repeatedly to gain confidence. Each assignment builds on the skill previously taught. By the end of the project, students will be able to create an original storybook.
Become an author. Use Google Docs or Word templates to publish books. Inspire young writers with fun story writing activities.
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Great program that I used with my first grade classes. They like the easy to read books and inserting their own clip art. Worked it into the English class as they practiced writing their own sentences for their story. Great resource!
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January 29,2016
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Every course includes a schedule. It lists the time recommended for each assignment. Typically, it takes between 30-60 minutes to complete an assignment depending on the grade level. Based on this time frame, a typical course takes between 360-600 minutes to complete. This is about 6-8 weeks if your students have computer class twice a week. However, if your students have computer class every day, a course can be completed in about 2-3 weeks.
How do I decide which assignments to teach?
You may not have the time to teach an entire TechnoKids course. The good news is that TechnoKids offers flexibility. Many courses can be shortened by omitting assignments or lengthened by including skill reviews and extension activities. You can easily adapt the course to suit your schedule. Refer to the Ideas for Implementation section in the teacher guide for suggestions.
Does the course integrate into other subjects?
TechnoKids courses are inter-disciplinary. This means the lesson plans blend computing skills with general content areas such as language arts, geography, or business studies. If you do not have a dedicated digital literacy class, refer to the Technology Integration Suggestions section in each teacher guide for ideas on how you can include the course in other subject areas.
Is the course a subscription?
Yes. When you purchase a course, you have access to the instructional materials for 12 months. After that time, should you want to continue, you will need to renew the subscription.
Is the course online?
Yes. You must sign into TechnoHub to access the course content from your bookshelf. The teacher guide and student workbook for a course are available online only. However, resources such as assessment tools, handouts, course slides, templates, and samples are downloadable.
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