Using Storymaker with Chromebooks

When I was struggling with ways for my Kindergartners to create on the Chromebook, I found Storymaker from ABCya!  It was super easy and the kids could easily use it.  The students loved it.  First I showed the students how to draw a picture using the tools at the bottom of the screen. 

We have touch screen Chromebooks but even still drawing on a touch screen seemed a little challenging so I gave my students a stylus that I purchased from Amazon.  They were very inexpensive and I have used them for years.  I originally used them with my iPads.  For many of the students it was much easier to draw on the Chromebook.  

The next step is to write a sentence about their picture.  This is when we discussed how to make a capital letter and use the space bar.  And if you are not a Kindergarten teacher you will not understand how even that was a challenge.  

Now you can make several pages but in my experience we had very little success when saving.  It seems to only save the first page and not the rest so if you want them to do a book you may need to save each page separately.  

When finished it looks like this.  

The students then click the green button with the down arrow to download.  We then save it to their Google Classroom folder and then we put it on Seesaw to share with parents. 

I use this a lot in writing but you could have students write a response to a book you are reading, write a prediction, or draw a math story and write a math sentence.  I hope this is easy for you to implement and the kids love it. 

Enjoy!

Dina