Let's use a child-friendly and very beautiful site called www.storybird.com to make our book.
1. Go to the website www.storybird.com.
2. Sign up for a free Teacher account. (You'll notice that under 13 year olds can make safe accounts here too—that will be handy for us when we want them to get creative!)
3. Click on Create.
4. Now we need to choose a theme for the pictures we'll use in our story. We can't add our own pictures, but there are many stunning ones to choose from that artists have donated. Choose an artist that appeals to you or scroll down as I have done and click on a keyword. I am going to click on water:
5. This takes us to lots of pictures connected with water. Click on one you like and then click the button Start a Storybird.
6. Your page will be centre screen. A message will tell you where to start writing. Add your first sentence to your first page!
7. If you don't like the picture, click on any of the many others...