Category: Literacy

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Standards Met, Creativity Unleashed: Book Creator’s Impact on Literacy Education

In this new book, we demonstrate how Book Creator seamlessly integrates with the K-5 Common Core Literacy Standards.
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Diving into Phonics: Get our new Digraphs and Vowel Teams templates

A quick recap of what phonics is, and how digraphs and vowel teams relate to phonics. When you’re done, grab our templates!
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Enhance Literacy Skills with Book Creator: Mastering the 5 Pillars of Reading

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.
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The Importance of Rhyming in Phonological Awareness for Early Language 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.
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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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