#1 daily writing app in the elementary grades! Endless student engagement with 175 included images, 375 text+voice prompts, OR customize with your own pictures. Kick-start all writing genres and watch reluctant writers soar! Write About This is a creation platform trusted on millions of classroom devices to gets kids writing!
“Top Pick” for Elementary School Writing from Common Sense Education!
REVIEWS:
“Editor’s Choice!” “Outstanding” “Great for a very wide range of ages and abilities..a highly useful and flexible tool for home or classroom to encourage children to write.” -BestAppsforKids.com
“The beauty of this app is its ease of use and endless opportunities for creative writing.” -BridgingApps
“Making writing fun again... an ‘A’! For any parent who may have a child who is needing extra practice in writing, I highly suggest this app.” -TeachersAppReview.com
“Versatile and easy to use for kids of many ages. The pictures are engaging and show diversity; the prompts get kids thinking critically and creatively.” -Common Sense Education
WHAT EDUCATORS SAY:
“I couldn’t get students to stop writing at the end of the day!” - Rebecca Wildman, 4th Grade Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator
“Very intuitive...an embodiment of the Universal Design for Learning principles” -Kit Hard, Instructional Tech Supervisor
“Write About This is always my Writing Center activity. A great feature is the ability for students to record themselves reading their writing.” -Pam Craig, Second Grade Teacher
“An excellent app to use for developing writing and fluency skills with students.” -Karen Bosch, K-8 Educator, Apple Distinguished Educator
“With an intuitive layout, this app provides a variety of tools for customizing pictures, recording prompts, recording ideas, writing and publishing ideas.” Carol Leynse Harpold, Assistive Technology Expert
See how hundreds of classrooms use Write About This: storify.com/WriteAboutThis/in-the-classroom
Full version includes:
**ALL CORE GENRES
An easy way for students to compose and publish writing across the curriculum, including Opinion, Narrative, Expository and Literature Response!
**AMAZING COMBINATION OF IMAGES AND PROMPTS
Carefully selected and written by teachers, all 175 images and 375 prompts are interesting and appropriate!
**FAST PHOTO+WRITING
NEW in 2017: Quick Write Gallery saves time by providing 50 safe and popular image catalysts to accompany stories, poems, journals or reflections!
**SIMPLE DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND APP SMASHING
Download work to the Camera Roll, share by email or use the Open-In feature to send to other apps (.JPG, .PDF or .MOV)!
**VOICE RECORDING FOR IMPROVING AND CELEBRATING WRITING
Authors can add a voice recording with their work to publish a personalized writing video! Also great during editing and revising to listen to how the writing sounds!
**OPEN-ENDED CREATIVITY
Quick Write button gets kids publishing immediately– perfect for when they have an idea and a photo to use (no prompt needed)!
**CREATE STUDENT PORTFOLIOS
Author Profiles include a custom avatar and unique default email for individualized sharing with parents and saved work can be filtered by author (great for shared devices)!
**CUSTOM PROMPTS
Use your photos, ideas and voice to spark student writing responses about a classroom or school event, a book from class, a science experiment… anything!
**FLEXIBILITY TO FIT EVERY LEARNER
Voice & Level options (3 per image) based on learning theory and real classroom experience! English Language Learners greatly benefit from voice recording and playback!
**WORKS WITH ANY NUMBER OF DEVICES
From single teacher iPads, to carts, to 1:1...educators are using the app to meet their unique needs to engage students and improve writing!
**EASY AND ACCESSIBLE
Search visual content based on interest, curriculum, season or theme. Kids as young as 5 use the app independently.
What will your students write about? Visit our Learning Hub at WriteAboutApp.com/blog