Digital Story Telling!

Digital story telling can be a great addition to the language arts classroom. Students of all ages would most likely enjoy sharing their own stories in a digital format. For students that find traditional story writing boring, the digital format would be much more motivating. Instead of simply writing a short story on a piece of paper, students can see their stories come to life by recording the stories, adding graphics, and music/sound effects. This would definitely make story writing more exciting for students. Digital story telling could be used in the language arts classroom as a way to retell students’ favorite stories in a digital format, or create stories about class field trips or projects. By having students read their own stories during the digital story telling process, students could increase their reading fluency through re-reading a familiar piece of text. Students could also work on comprehension by retelling a favorite children’s book or a book that has been read and discussed several times in class. Digital story telling could also be used as a reader response a activity in which students share their favorite parts of a story, create an alternative ending, write a letter to a character in a story, etc. There are countless possibilities. Digital story telling could even be a great way to begin a school year; having each students share information about themselves, their families, or their favorite part of summer vacation. Overall, I would love to incorporate digital story telling into my own classroom. I think it would be a great way to motivate the reluctant readers and writers in my class.