{"id":33660,"date":"2025-03-10T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/?p=33660"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:51:00","slug":"create-a-collaborative-book-with-your-students-for-be-an-author-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/2025\/03\/create-a-collaborative-book-with-your-students-for-be-an-author-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Collaborative Book with your  Students for Be An Author Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e33660-e1 mpz0-0\"><span class=\"x-image e33660-e2 mpz0-1 mpz0-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shannon-BaAM-post-1.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1150\" alt=\"S\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e33660-e3 mpz0-4 mpz0-5\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e33660-e4 mpz0-6\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e33660-e5 mpz0-7 mpz0-8 mpz0-9 intro-text\">Shannon Miller is entering her schools into the 'Tell Your Story' competition - and she's provided some guidance so you can do the same.<\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e33660-e6 mpz0-8 mpz0-9 mpz0-a mpz0-b mpz0-c main-text\"><span  class=\"x-dropcap\" >W<\/span>e are so excited to be celebrating <strong>Be An Author Month<\/strong> at my school. This week, our students will be writing, creating, and sharing their stories using Book Creator. I can\u2019t wait to announce that they even have a chance to enter the <strong>Tell Your Story Competition<\/strong>\u2014they\u2019ll be so excited!<\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e33660-e7 mpz0-8 mpz0-9 mpz0-b mpz0-c mpz0-d main-text\"><p>Hosted by Book Creator, this amazing event highlights the power of reading and writing, turning classrooms, libraries, and school communities into vibrant spaces for creativity, self-expression, and fun!<\/p>\n<p>My teachers and I have been having so much fun preparing to kick off Be An Author Month, brainstorming creative ways to bring it to their classrooms and students. As the district teacher librarian, I collaborate with teachers to design and implement engaging lessons and projects that support students and align with grade-level standards.<\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership, we integrate information literacy, innovation, creativity, and meaningful technology use into learning. Be An Author Month is the perfect project to support my goals as a <a href=\"https:\/\/all4ed.org\/future-ready-librarians-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future Ready Librarian<\/a>, while also supporting the goals of the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>While planning with our kindergarten team, I suggested creating a <strong>collaborative book<\/strong> for Be An Author Month. This approach allows students to share their stories while also aligning with our district\u2019s vision of collaboration and communication. It\u2019s a great way to support our young learners while making the project both manageable and fun for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/library\/-NqRys2DRBwyweVwWyGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tell Your Story competition resources screenshot of library\" width=\"2560\" height=\"953\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33663 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-700x260.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-1536x572.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-2048x762.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-100x37.jpg 100w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tell-Your-Story-competition-resources-screenshot-of-library-1424x530.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/library\/-NqRys2DRBwyweVwWyGA\">Teacher Resources library<\/a> on the Be An Author Month hub page, you will find templates, lesson ideas, and activities to support teachers and all grade levels.<\/p>\n<p>I remixed the Story Templates for Grades K-5 that I found on that page to create\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content x-hide-sm x-hide-xs e33660-e8 mpz0-8 mpz0-b mpz0-e bookcreator\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/rvUWC7JRynbRo4LXMzoB1vocAPh1\/0oJFt8RjSi6Fp5rfRJHwRA\/Qcoowg2QRaqrhsnM-dp2QA?nopreview&sidebyside=false\" height=\"550\" allow=\"clipboard-write self https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e33660-e9 mpz0-8 mpz0-9 mpz0-b mpz0-c mpz0-d main-text\"><p>\u2026this super fun collaborative book story template.<\/p>\n<p>With one of the main standards being <em>Literacy: With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers<\/em>, our focus was to find a topic they would love to talk about on their pages.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to go with <em>We Love Our School<\/em> and have the kindergarteners share all of the wonderful things about Van Meter School. They love sharing things they love about school and will have no problem completing this project successfully.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Adapting the template to make it our own<\/h2>\n<p>After I remixed the <em>Tell Your Story Template<\/em>, I changed the cover to say <em>We Love Our School,<\/em> and created a short summary of the kindergarteners collaborative book.<\/p>\n<p>I then added two pages for each student to complete. They will add a drawing, sentence, video and photograph of what they love about school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Pages from Shannon's template\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1055\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-700x288.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-768x317.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-1536x633.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-2048x844.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-100x41.jpg 100w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Pages-from-Shannons-template-1424x587.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made a template of the space within the page so students can plan and draw a picture of what they love. I will scan these into the copier and then upload each into their Book Creator slide.<\/p>\n<p>You can make a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/rvUWC7JRynbRo4LXMzoB1vocAPh1\/0oJFt8RjSi6Fp5rfRJHwRA\/Qcoowg2QRaqrhsnM-dp2QA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Love Our School template<\/a>\u00a0- just click the Remix link.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s incredible to think about all of the different skills they will use while creating in Book Creator. They will draw a picture (even more with the tools in Book Creator), type a sentence and can even use speech to text, add a video, add a photo, and personalize it even more with other elements.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s incredible to think about all of the different skills they will use while creating in Book Creator. They will draw a picture, type a sentence and can even use speech to text, add a video, add a photo, and personalize it even more with other elements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shannons-Be-An-Author-library.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon's Be An Author library\" width=\"442\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shannons-Be-An-Author-library.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shannons-Be-An-Author-library-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shannons-Be-An-Author-library-100x53.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our students will love being part of this collaborative book. It will be such a special project to share with our kindergarteners and their families. It will be part of our <strong>Be An Author<\/strong> Library so others within our school can read it too.<\/p>\n<p>And a collaborative book can also be entered into the Tell Your Story Competition!<\/p>\n<p><i  class=\"x-icon x-icon-info-circle\" data-x-icon-s=\"&#xf05a;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/competition?utm_campaign=4566333-H1%202025%20Be%20an%20Author%20Month&amp;utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=shannon-blog\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">How to enter the competition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_33667\" style=\"width: 1476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Be-An-Author-One-Pager.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33667\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition.jpg\" alt=\"How to enter the competition\" width=\"1466\" height=\"1474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-696x700.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-100x101.jpg 100w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-1424x1432.jpg 1424w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/How-to-enter-the-competition-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1466px) 100vw, 1466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-page PDF you can print<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What a wonderful way to empower our students as creators as we encourage and support them in creating a digital product of their learning while engaging them in collaboration, communication and of course, creativity.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to share what the kindergarteners create in their collaborative Book Creator stories.\u00a0And I can\u2019t wait to see what your students create for Be An Author Month too.<\/p>\n<p>You will find everything you need for <a href=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/?utm_campaign=4566333-H1%202025%20Be%20an%20Author%20Month&amp;utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=shannon-blog\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Be An Author Month here<\/a>, friends.<\/p><\/div><a class=\"x-image x-hide-lg x-hide-md x-hide-xl e33660-e10 mpz0-1 mpz0-3\" href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/rvUWC7JRynbRo4LXMzoB1vocAPh1\/0oJFt8RjSi6Fp5rfRJHwRA\/Qcoowg2QRaqrhsnM-dp2QA\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookcreator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/We-Love-Our-School-template.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"542\" alt=\"We Love Our School! template\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Miller is entering her schools into the &#8216;Tell Your Story&#8217; competition &#8211; and she&#8217;s provided some guidance so you can do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":33672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[551,47,27,550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-be-an-author","category-elementary-primary","category-english-language-arts","category-future-ready-skills"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - 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