Author name: Author: Baber Baig

Every December, I loved helping my kindergartners plan & create homemade gifts for their families. We made handprint wreaths and salt dough ornaments with their

Join WriteReader Ambassadors and teachers to share the joy of winter holidays around the world through student writing! Creating and sharing holiday books with classes around the world will help your students connect globally and gain an understanding of holiday traditions around the globe.     Get Started Connecting is simple! If you’d like to

Writing gives students the opportunity to share their thoughts and voice with others through an authentic audience. This project, a collaboration between district literacy and tech integration coaches as well as classroom teachers and students, provided students with the opportunity to write, publish and share books with their local community. Our favorite places 4th and

There has been a trend for a number of years to try to make mandatory content more exciting or perhaps even fun, by adding gamification elements and turning it into “edutainment”. It seems like gamification in learning only has a very short-term effect, and as far as I know, there is no scientific evidence that

We all know that it is important that the carpenter, the doctor and the watchmaker use the right tools to solve the tasks they are faced with. The same rule applies when students learn to read by writing and creating their own books with texts, images and sound.   Focus, focus, focus A Swiss army

WriteReader is a powerful yet simple tool that allows students to create and share their learning and stories. This past week I have had the opportunity to introduce this tool to a handful of kindergarten and first grade students, and the response has been fantastic! Students are eager to begin writing and teachers are so

Sequencing and retelling events is a critical literacy and language skill my First Grade Multilingual learners practice throughout the year. I was thrilled to hear about the new series of story sequencing pictures recently added to the WriteReader image bank. What a wonderful way for my students to practice sequencing and retelling as well as