Use Digital Storytelling to Build Powerful Literacy Skills
Use these examples of digital storytelling to build literacy and connect students more deeply to your classroom curriculum.
Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.
Whether you have Chromebooks, iPads, PCs, or Macs in your classroom, you can use technology to engage and inspire your students in the curriculum.
These digital stories were created by students using Wixie.
Interview with an Animal
Students interview animals to demonstrate knowledge of animal characteristics, diet, and more.
Lesson Plan
Wixie comic-style interview starter
Book Trailers
Students explore character, plot, and theme and write persuasively as they develop a movie-style trailer for a book they have read.
Visual Poetry
Poetry's purposeful word choice encourages close, careful reading. Have student demonstrate "understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings" by creating visual poems.
Personification Stories
Students can personify an object and write a story as part of an online book or animated adventure.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Narratives
Kinders @elmwoodes create stories on #wixie with captions and illustrations. @Jeffrey_hogan @MrsRode pic.twitter.com/3seIpiDH5F
— Rita Phillips (@RitaPhillips85) April 1, 2022 -
Fantasy
Proud of this risk-taker who shared her fantasy story with the class. Everyone was so impressed! #bcpslms #Wixie pic.twitter.com/MnkTX4cnbP
— Woodmoor Elementary Library (@WoodmoorLibrary) February 4, 2022 -
Stories as Response to Literature
#readaloudoftheday is Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by #macbarnettandjonklassen. This is a kick off to our #caldecott unit in 1st grade and they LOVE this book! Students then used #wixie to show who they would dig a hole with and what they would find! #itsworthit #worthreading #edtech pic.twitter.com/zprUF6v3Ii
— Danielle Brown (@wes_library) January 17, 2020 -
Movies to Inform
2nd graders are recording their voice for an informational #wixie movie about their planet research @QuarterfieldES @aacpsoit #AACPSawesome #FutureReadyLibs pic.twitter.com/Am3xdX5jUR
— Kristine Nellenbach (@Nellenbach_LMS) February 20, 2018 -
News Reports
Creating a new page for the book, Breaking News: Bear Alert! @christianson_ms #cherokeeinspires #wixie #monarch pic.twitter.com/b4fak75og5
— Amy Mobile (@cherokeeirc) January 13, 2016 -
Interviews
2nd graders interview famous Americans using Wixie. @FGillikinJr @flemingflamingo @VBGifted @vabits @vbits pic.twitter.com/3fufVwnYYv
— Mrs. Dana Hand (@thaliagifted) March 21, 2017 -
Visual Poetry
5th grade @BormanCSD83 is bringing poetry to life with Wixie! @carolynkdaly @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/W4xjgoiIje
— Stefanie Ann (@StefanieAnn33) April 25, 2017 -
Digital Biographies
2nd graders creating a biography project in Wixie after researching famous Americans. #hornetnation #wixie pic.twitter.com/uzoTrHl6Ll
— Jennifer Buchko (@Jen_Buchko) March 4, 2016 -
Book Trailers
#3rdgrade Ss choose #wixie to create a book trailer @Tech4Learning @wsesmediacenter #ourfcps pic.twitter.com/5RcQmMn5Wd
— Willow Springs ES (@WSESfox) May 24, 2017
