Using Story Bird is a simple way for students to learn how to create stories using pictures that can symbolize the ideas, terms, or events that they are learning in class.
Story Bird is user friendly, and easy to set up for your classroom. After choosing to create a Story Bird, you are shown works of art by many different artists. The idea is that you choose an artist and their style to use in your creation. You are able to use the search option to look for art that is more specific to the subject. However, you will rarely find art that is an exact representation of your work. Whereas students find this to be difficult, it is more useful to them than they know. Students have to think more about the terms, characters, or ideas that they are writing about in order to find art that is used more as symbolism. Once the art is chosen, you decide if it will be used for a story or for poetry. In this case, it will be used for a story. As you prepare to write your story, you are shown multiple pictures that you can use to add to your Story Bird. Once you create your cover page, you can add multiple pages as your creation grows.
One of the very helpful functions on the Story Bird page is the classroom organizer. You can load your classes, though you have to do one student at a time, and actually give them assignments on Story Bird. This is great because you can access everything they are working on, what they have published, and you can assign them new work on the site. Assignments are listed as well as the work from the class library. All work is private and can only be accessed by you or the students that are assigned to the class.
In my class, students were assigned to create a Story Bird that used Symbolism. Specifically, they were to create a Story Bird that shared an event from The Hunger Games. Using different pictures, students were to write 1-2 sentences for each picture that would explain what their picture symbolized. Students first had to choose an event, and then choose pictures that would help them to create their Story Bird.
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