Features

• Create books to suit students with a wide range of abilities

  Stories can range from just a single page with few words, to books with many pages and many words to a page.

• Use your own pictures, videos and sound effects to create high-interest social stories which can be directly from the student's world

  Use the pictures included in the database or capture pictures from a video file, a Webcam, the internet or use any picture on your computer or an attached digital camera.

• Over 6,000 words with recorded sounds in the database and you can add your own words

  StoryMaker makes it easy to add words and record sounds for them. Record different sound forms for a word to produce natural sounding spoken sentences.

• Create word sets for each student to help them create their own stories

  Show thumbnails for words if you wish. Words from a set can be added to a story by clicking on a word or dragging and dropping into the story. Create as many word sets as you like for any student and export for use by others.

• Parts of speech can be colour coded

  Allows parts of speech to be coloured in word sets (creating books) or working with books. Choose which parts of speech are shown in a word set . Colours can be customised for a student.

• Add videos or sound effects to each page

  Videos or sound files can be played after a page is completed when listening to a book or on completing tasks such as clicking on the words in a page or recreating a page. Greatly aids comprehension and motivation when working with books. Pictures can also be used for this.

• Easily select the parts of a video or sound file to use with a page

  Select different videos or sound effects or different parts of the same videos or sound files for different pages of book. Use as many videos or sounds (or pictures) as you wish with any page

• Many options to assist learning to read and write

  Listen to a book being read, read a book with the words spoken on mouseover of a word, click on words as requested, or recreate the pages of a book - this helps develop understanding of sentence structure and can be the first step in a student learning to write.

• Teach sequences of actions

  Use stories to teach the order of actions - for example getting dressed, washing hands, starting a converstation, etc.

• Books are stored in bookshelves for each student

  This makes it easy to keep track of books when a large number are created for a student.

• Save as PDF

  A book created in StoryMaker can be saved as a PDF (without multimedia), printed, or exported (with multimedia) to USB or other location. Can be exported as a single zipped file and made available to others using StoryMaker using Dropbox or other file sharing software. All the books in a bookshelf can be exported at the click of a button.

• Integrates with the latest Flashcards

  Users created in one are available in the other, added words and pictures are available in both. Words in Flashcards sets can be brought straight into word sets in StoryMaker and books in StoryMaker can be used to create word sets in Flashcards (for the same student).

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