Write About This vs 100 Yay! Usage & Stats

#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