Category: Literacy

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From A to Zing! Learn the Alphabet with Book Creator

Check out these new student templates available in Book Creator to support foundational literacy, designed by our Head of Literacy Learning, Randi Ahrndt.
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Feature update – more options in the text editor

We’ve updated the text editor with some powerful new features! Text coloring and highlighting, bullet lists, and special characters for math and languages.
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Why color matters: Unlocking the magic of color in education

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!).
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Standards-driven success with Book Creator in CUSD 300

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.
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Partner Spotlight – Houston ISD

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.
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Get creative with the Book Creator Poetry competition

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?!
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Celebrate writing in your school district 🎉

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.
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Turn your students into authors – Be An Author month

March is Be An Author Month! In this blog post, we have all the key dates for the month covered, plus writing prompts, lesson ideas and templates to get you started.
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Support your reluctant readers with Book Creator

There are multiple reasons why students may be reluctant readers. Luckily Book Creator is here to help! Grab ideas, resources and templates to help you through Read Across America Day and Read an Ebook Week.
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