We’re celebrating #CSEdWeek this year with some ideas and resources that you might not have considered.

A quick recap of what phonics is, and how digraphs and vowel teams relate to phonics. When you’re done, grab our templates!

This update makes it easier to assign lessons to your students in Book Creator. Just click and share!

The 5 pillars of literacy are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. These pillars really come alive when underpinned by the foundations of motivation and access – that’s where Book Creator comes in.

Dr. Beth Holland introduces the final part of our 4 part-series on Creativity – how to get multimedia creative outputs from your learners.

There may not be Neopets living in the Motherboard, but there IS endless creativity living in each of your students! Dr. Beth Holland has some ideas on how to unlock that creative potential in learners.

Do you value creativity but find no place for it in your curriculum? It’s time to rethink that and see how central creativity is to student development.

Learn why rhyming is so important to developing literacy skills and grab our new Book Creator templates to help teach rhyming in your classroom.

Check out these new student templates available in Book Creator to support foundational literacy, designed by our Head of Literacy Learning, Randi Ahrndt.

The first post in this Creativity blog series introduced the broader concept of the 4Ps: Place, Process Person, Product. This one dives into Place.

Empower your students to get creative whilst getting to know each other – a great idea for the start of the school year.

Digital portfolios are the key to nurturing skills in learners, connecting with parents, and showcasing student work in a way which simply can’t be done using artificial intelligence. Here’s our guide to making the most of digital portfolios.

Dr. Beth Holland introduces a framework called the 4Ps of Creativity to help educators incorporate creativity into their teaching practices.

We’ve updated the text editor with some powerful new features! Text coloring and highlighting, bullet lists, and special characters for math and languages.

Book Creator’s Head of Literacy Learning Randi Ahrndt on how to unlock the magic of color theory in education (and how our latest feature update can help with that!).

An independent review by LearnPlatform has concluded that Book Creator meets the standards of evidence in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) aligning with Level IV “Demonstrates a Rationale.”

We worked with Twinkl to publish some new Book Creator resources to support UK teachers and pupils.

In this Partner Spotlight, we focus on our friends at Community Unit School District 300, based in Algonquin, Illinois. They bought Book Creator in 2019 and are using it to align with their vision to support creativity, innovation, literacy and digital learning driven by the ISTE Standards.

AI is a tool not often associated with elementary education, yet one that holds immense potential. Students found themselves collaborating with AI to ignite their storytelling journey in a lesson with teacher Tracy Terwilliger and Digital Learning Coach Holly Clark.

Book Creator and Empatico have teamed up to help you foster collaboration and empathy in your classrooms. Join the Book Creator community in Empatico and access four pre-made lessons to help you connect with teachers and students across the world.

At Book Creator, we believe in the power of innovation and connection to make a real difference in education. We are thrilled to announce the launch of an expansion to our Community program, available at bookcreator.com/community.

Graphic novels are a compelling and engaging medium for students of all ages to demonstrate their learning. And with Book Creator’s in-app comic builder, the possibilities are endless.

How Book Creator can be used as a tool for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and an enriching experience for both the students and teachers.

How an entire Grade 4 class became published Authors, with an epic reveal and celebration

Michael Hernandez shares some ideas for teachers to take on board to support their own creativity and enrichment. He also shares his own homemade example, made in Book Creator!

Dr. Monica Burns shares some of her favorite tips using Book Creator as you come back to school.

Start the new year with an inclusive outlook, making students feel valued and building their self-esteem from the first day in your classroom.

As we get ready for Back to School – have a look at some of the features you might not have noticed came out in the past year.

If you’ve been using Book Creator over the past year or more, now is a good time to take stock and perform some simple housekeeping activities to keep everything in order.

Whether you’re a Book Creator veteran or a novice – here are some ideas and concepts to help you get the most out of Book Creator in the coming school year.

Check out the Book Creator Toolkit – the perfect resource for instructional coaches and tech integrators who use Book Creator in their schools and districts.

AI, VR, creativity, equity and technology – a look back at the key things we learned from attending ISTE 2023.

Create engaging and effective learning experiences for students. Our graphic organizers can help promote critical thinking, organize thoughts, and foster deeper understanding.

Book Creator now comes with over 100 teacher created, professionally designed graphic organizers and lesson planners. Enabling students to make use of all our multimedia and accessibility features.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make assessing students in meaningful ways difficult. Use Book Creator to create authentic projects.

We’ve updated read mode in Book Creator! New reading settings, page picker, and new sharing options all arrive to give a welcome boost to the reading and publishing experience.

We asked our Book Creator Ambassadors to tell us which companies and tools are changing learning for the better – here are their top 5 responses.

Congratulations to the winners of our Poetry Competition! Over 100 entries from across the world, and we’ve narrowed it down to the 10 finalists and two winners from each age category.

We spoke to the Houston ISD Technology team about how they deployed Book Creator to help with writing across the curriculum – in STEM lessons and beyond.

Learn how a Gradual Release of Responsibility coaching model worked for these instructional tech coaches.

The Department of Student Services at Cincinnati Public Schools adopted Book Creator to improve access to learning for students.

May is National Photography Month. Get kids excited about learning with photographs in Book Creator.

How teachers at Englewood Schools, Colorado, increased engagement and accessibility using Book Creator.

Creative writing projects like poetry are a great way to help your students strengthen their creativity and critical thinking skills. Here are some tips for creating poetry projects with Book Creator.

Holly Clark compares Book Creator with Google Slides, and describes how it’s helping inspire creativity and critical thinking in students.

Hear how Book Creator came to the rescue for a school in South Africa which lead them to winning a national competition.

Let’s take a moment to remember and thank our School Librarians – the unsung heroes of the classroom. Also it’s National Library Week 23-29th April.

We’ve created a brand new resource pack to help you introduce your students to Book Creator for the first time. Get your lesson plans and templates for each grade level here.

21st March is World Poetry Day. What’s more – it’s National Poetry Month in April. So how do we get kids excited about poetry? How about a Book Creator competition?!

Take that writing and share it beyond the classroom. Your students will thank you for it. Here are some ideas on the best ways to celebrate student writing in your school district.