The Airplane

Mariko is beginning independent writing.  To help scaffold this process, we use Explain Everything to record our ideas and then listen to our recording as we find the words.  Today, Mariko wrote about an airplane.

A Snowman!

Last week we used Explain Everything to help us with our story writing.  First we took a photo of our story motivation - we were talking about winter and Mrs Belt found a great photo of some learners building a snowman.

Then we decided what our story was going to be and recorded it using the voice recorder on Explain Everything.  We were then able to play back our story and see what came next as we located the words to write our story from around the classroom.