Category: Literacy

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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

Discover how rhyming enhances phonological awareness, a critical foundation for early literacy. Explore engaging rhyming activities and templates to boost reading skills in your classroom with Book Creator.
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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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The writing process: Unlock your inner author with the 5 step writing process

Unlocking the future of education: How EdTech empowers teachers and students alike – empowering our students and ourselves through technology.
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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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Unlocking reading comprehension: The art and science of understanding text

We unravel the intricacies of understanding written words, explore the essence of reading comprehension, look at strategies to enhance it, and discover how Book Creator can sprinkle magic over the entire experience.
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