Digital Storytelling in the Primary Grades
Use these examples of digital storytelling to build literacy and connect students more deeply to your classroom curriculum.
Emerging writers can build powerful skills as they craft projects that apply narrative, informational and opinion writing skills.
Literature Adaptation
Students create their own adaptations of literature they are reading.
Adapt a Story lesson plan
Retell Events
Students use sight word sentence starters to write to retell events.
Author Original Narratives
Make your emerging writers published authors. Write and illustrate a story and then export as PDF or eBook.
Learning to write and sequence directions
Have students write how-to books for favorite activities or tasks they can do independently.
Favorite Relative
Have students write a simple story about a family member or friend. Have them record their voice and share on Mother's Day, Father's Day, or even Valentine's Day.
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 -
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 -
Sequencing
Wixie is an awesome tool for story telling and sequencing! @Tech4Learning @melindak @carolynkdaly Thanks @OPfirsties - we had a blast! https://t.co/sxBbUM54Uj
— Brett G. Baker (@bakerbg) March 24, 2021 -
Interviews
2nd graders interview famous Americans using Wixie. @FGillikinJr @flemingflamingo @VBGifted @vabits @vbits pic.twitter.com/3fufVwnYYv
— Mrs. Dana Hand (@thaliagifted) March 21, 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
