Quoth the Raven

 BookCreator makes the process of creating novels simple. For a classroom.

In our Technologies class, Abby and I created a lesson to teach our classmates how to use the app. To do so, we created a sample novel and library and a Google Slides presentation about the parts of a novel. 

The lesson we created was geared towards a fifth grade class and was designed as the first of a whole unit on chapter books. To ease them into the lesson (and as a framing device for teaching the main features of the app), we included pictures of the different parts of different books as well as the corresponding part that we created and linked it back to the app. Our "students" were then asked to make that part of the book in their app. This was then added to our library. 

We also brought in physical books for them to find the non-story parts of a book in a bid for them to explore books in a way they normally wouldn't for themselves.

It was fun creating a lesson like this and I really liked our attempt to make it student-led with our physical novels as they got to decide what areas to explore and create. 

This is definitely a lesson I would like to recreate with a real classroom. I would perhaps have them brainstorm story ideas in a previous class so their books would have titles and the library would look less homogeneous by the end.