Books are a great teaching tool especially in childhood education and the first grade of primary education. But in this case, we are going to talk about digital books. Storyjumper allow us to create and design our own stories and even add sound to them.
This tool can be very useful for teachers, since we can create stories with special characteristics that students are learning, for example, some vocabulary such as animals, colors, clothes, emotions, weather, etc. or grammar tenses. Another advantage is the fact that students can reread it at home as many times as they want. They do not have the problem that usually occurs with physical books that if there is only one book in class you can have it for a limited time or if you really want to have the book for yourself you have to buy it.
On the other hand, this tool gives students the opportunity to write their own stories so they can practice their writing skills and speaking and pronunciation if they decide to record themselves reading it. It is an intuitive tool that I would use with students from 3rd grade on as for younger ones can be a bit challenging.
In short, I think that it is a very good tool to encourage students to write and give a purpose to their writing. It also allows us to do different activities such as, asking them to write a story about a thematic (Halloween, Christmas) or a book contest, so they start to get into the habit of writing and see it as something fun.
Here you can see an example I made
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