the eBooks on this page were written by my students, or students I collaborate with. they were all created using iBooks Author or the Book Creator App and published in Apple's iBookstore. We are so excited about these eBooks. We truly believe that students will learn more when they realize that people from the global community value their work. we have had a combined total of more than 21,000 books downloaded in 48+ different countries!
Books Written Using The book creator app - Available on all ios devices and Macs!
The Collaborative Poetry Project
Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
A few weeks back a teacher on Twitter, Ashley Gravelle, posted a comment about looking for ideas for a collaborative poetry project. I immediately wanted to make a poetry eBook with her students. Before we knew it, Michael Donnelly joined the party. I wanted to get someone from Alliance to participate so enter Kate Harris. This is our collaborative poetry project! Students from grades 2 and 3 participated to create this eBook. I am happy to be compiling their hard work into one eBook. States may separate us but poetry brings us together. We hope you enjoy this book.
china Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
“Our class began our study of China by recording all the information we already knew about the country and all the things we wanted to learn. We read nonfiction text to learn facts about China. We learned to sing a familiar song and how to count to ten in Mandarin. Throughout the project, we became familiar with Chinese culture, customs, and...best of all...food! We created this book to share the things we learned!”
|
Discovering Italy Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Mrs. Power's Kindergarten Class at Alliance Early Learning School, completed a project based learning activity where students discovered Italian, language, food, symbols and monuments and culture.
|
Excited About Elephants Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
We love elephants in Mrs. Reich's room! We have learned about how elephants move their body, what they eat, and how they play. Enjoy our book!
fish frenzy Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Mr. Morgan's kindergarten class at Alliance Early Learning School learned about fish. To demonstrate their learning the students wrote this eBook all about fish. We hope you enjoy it.
|
Amazing Sea Creatures Click on the image to buy in iTunes.
Students in Mrs. Gasparik's Kdg class at AELS learned about sea creatures. To demonstrate their learning they wrote and published this iBook. We hope you enjoy.
|
From The beach to the water Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Mrs. Bowser's class at Alliance Early Learning School learned about the beach. To demonstrate what they learned, the students wrote this eBook. We hope you enjoy reading it.
|
shark tale Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Ms. Zemrock's kindergarten class at Alliance Early Learning School learned about sharks. This eBook is a compilation of their pictures and facts they learned about sharks. We hope you enjoy this eBook.
|
Interesting facts about mammals Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Miss Elliott's kindergarten class at Alliance Early Learning School learned about mammals. To demonstrate their learning students researched interesting facts about mammals and wrote this eBook. We hope you enjoy the eBook.
|
What we learned about birds Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Alliance Early Learning School students in Mrs. Winner and Mrs. Hackney's classroom spent some time researching about birds. Students asked and answered questions about different bird species of their choice. Our students have typed up their interesting findings and created an eBook for you to enjoy!
|
Reptiles Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Mrs. Harper's kindergarten class learned about reptiles. To demonstrate their learning, students wrote this eBook. We hope you enjoy reading it.
|
China Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Ms. Kuceyeski's kindergarten enrichment class learned about China. To demonstrate what they learned, students wrote and published this eBook using the Book Creator app. We hope you enjoy reading our eBook.
|
Animals on the farm Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Ms. Hennon's kindergarten class at the Alliance Early Learning School were learning about animals on farms. To demonstrate their learning, students researched animals on the farm and compiled their learning in this book. We hope you enjoy reading the book as much as we did writing it. This is the third iBook created by Ms. Hennon's class. Great job students. We are proud of you.
|
insects Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Ms. Hennon's class at the Alliance Early Learning School learned about insects recently. To show what they learned the students created this iBook. Click on the picture to download the book in iTunes.
|
The Four Seasons Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
A group of students at the Alliance Early Learning School furthered their understanding of the four seasons by creating an eBook called, "About the Four Seasons." The kindergarten students researched, typed, and drew a picture about each of the four seasons! We hope you enjoy this eBook.
|
I See Numbers All Over The Place Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Our newest iBook was written by kindergarten students in Ms. Hennon's class at the Alliance Early Learning School. The students demonstrated their knowledge of numbers by finding them around the school. We hope you enjoy this iBook.
|
All About Bats Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Mrs. Bender's 1st grade class learned about bats. In this iBook, students demonstrate their knowledge through writing and interviews. We hope you enjoy this book. They are planning to do many more this year.
|
Did you hear the one about...? Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Did You Hear the One About....? is a joke book created by Alliance Middle School students to showcase their targeted speech therapy goals in a humorous manner. Students are able to "see how they sound" (developing self-monitoring skills) while having fun practicing their speech and producing a product for the world to enjoy. We hope you enjoy the book as much as we do.
|
Social Skills Volume 1 Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Social Skills Volume 1 is our first attempt at writing an iBook using software other than iBooks Author. We decided to use the Book Creator app. This app is extremely easy to use and a lot of fun. There were three 4th grade autistic kids who wrote this eBook. The teacher and boys decided they needed to work on social skills. Their lessons learned are presented in this eBook. Enjoy! This iBook is available for iPhone, iPod and iPad.
|
Social Skills Volume 2 Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Social Skills Volume 2 is our second attempt at using the Book Creator app. Again, this iBook was written by 4th grade autistic students. Enjoy the lessons taught in this iBook. This iBook is available or all iOS devices.
|
Social Skills Volume 3: Manners On The Bus Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Mrs. Pirogowicz's speech class write and publish another iBook. This is the 3rd iBook these students from Rockhill have created. Their newest book is called Social Skills Volume 3: Manners On The Bus. Congratulations to these students and Mrs. Pirogowicz for their amazing work and wonderful book. Click the link below to download this FREE iBook on all iOS devices (iPad, Mac, iPod Touch and iPhone).
|
Books Written Using iBooks Author - available on ipads and macs only
GNA FRidays Click on the image to buy in iTunes!
Graphic Novel Alliance is a semester long project which grew out of a course entitled Graphic Novels. This course is taught at Alliance High School. Students in this course learned about the art of graphic storytelling by creating their very own publication.
How to understand the Holocaust Click the image to buy in iTunes!
The International Shared Reading Project, a program of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, is an exercise in international cooperative learning about the Shoah (Holocaust) and its meaning for youth today. As participants in the program, students in Ms. Barbara Mudrak’s three sophomore Honors English classes were partnered with students in three different schools in Israel: Amakim Tavor Regional School in Kibbutz Mizra and Makif Gimmel and Makif Tet high schools, both in Rishon Lezion. Students on both sides of the world read the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, then discussed it with their partners. The project lasted from October 2013 through February 2014. Their discussions took place on a secure website hosted by the Janusz Korczak International School. The iBook is available for download on iPads. Click on the link below to read their iBook. Congratulations on a job well done.
|
Modern canterbury stories Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition class at Alliance High School faced a daunting assignment earlier this year: to write a modern version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s much-loved Canterbury Tales.
We decided as a group that our stories would be told by characters in the waiting room of a hospital. Students worked in groups to create characters for the prologue, and then worked individually to write stories (in verse) that those characters might tell. The results can be found on the following pages. We sincerely hope you enjoy our efforts, and we hope that you might be inspired to read or re-read the original Canterbury Tales as a result. |
More Than A Footnote Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Students in Alliance, Ohio, and Ashdod, Israel, share their thoughts on the book Night by Elie Wiesel, reaching across distance and culture to learn about the Holocaust as part of the International Book Sharing Project of the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum.
|
Sitting In The Dark Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Movies are the popular literature of the 21st century. We devour them with a fervor once reserved for novels and short stories, following our favorite actors and directors the way earlier generations followed favorite writers.
To create this book, each student in my Advanced Placement English Language and Composition class selected one film from the National Film Registry, which chooses up to 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films” each year for inclusion in the Library of Congress. Each student then wrote a review, discussing what worked and didn’t work; choices made by screenwriters, directors, and cinematographers; and personal reactions to particular scenes or the film as a whole. The goal was to create readable reviews that treated film with the same level of respect afforded to other works of art. |
Fractured Fairy Tales Click the image to buy in iTunes!
Fractured Fairy Tales was written by 5th graders at Parkway Elementary School in Alliance, Ohio. After reading fairy tales they decided to write their own. Enjoy the stories.
|
May We Suggest...? Click the image to buy in iTunes
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much are a thousand words worth?
Mr. Schillig's freshman classes decided to find out by writing book reviews and filming brief book talks. While most students stayed will under one thousand words, they did gain experience in reviewing and analyzing popular fiction. We learned along the way. For example, it wasn't until after filming was finished that we discovered how one mouse click reverses images in Photo Booth so that our books wouldn't appear backwards. Next time. We hope you enjoy the reviews. More importantly, we hope you find new books and authors to explore. Thanks for reading. Chris Schillig |
Canterbury Remixed Click the image to buy in iTunes
After reading Chaucer’s prologue to The Canterbury Tales and two of the stories themselves, The Pardoner’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale, students in my Advanced Placement English class tried their hands at modernizing the work. Click HERE to read this eBook in your web browser.
|
It Was A Dark And Stormy Classroom Click on the image to buy in iTunes
This is the first eBook created and published by the freshman class at Alliance High School. Please download our eBook by clicking on the picture. The book is available for iPad. If you would like to read our eBook in your web browser, click HERE.
|
Math Our Way Click the image to buy in iTunes
Our newest eBook is actually a textbook demonstrating what kids learned this year in math. It has only been in the iBookstore since June 9th. It has been downloaded 5000+ times. It has also been downloaded in 47 different countries. We hope that all readers enjoy this book and learn a lot about math. This book and the others we created truly demonstrate the power of global thinking in education.
|
5th Grade: Reflections On Our Year Click the image to buy in iTunes
Our second eBook has only been out for a short time. It has already been downloaded over 265 times in 47 different countries. This book was designed to show the students' reflections on their year. It is not a story book, rather reactions to each student's year.
The Two Kids And Desert Town Click the image to buy in iTunes
This was our first eBook created using Apple's iBooks Author program. We have had this eBook downloaded over 3743 times in 47Cl different countries.
|
Paid iBooks Written By Me
The Crazy Family Dogs
Click the image to buy in iTunes
This was my test iBook. I created this myself as a funny poetry book. It costs $0.99 in the Apple iBookstore. As soon as I made this book I realized that charging for money would not work really well for a school setting. That's why all our student iBooks are free. This book has not made me a millionaire by any means. If you are looking for a silly book of poetry, this is your book.
ePubBud.com Books
Essays On Child Labor
Click on the image to read online
Mr. Shively's class wrote this book about child labor based on the pictures. This book is only available on ePubBud.com. Click on the picture to read the book.
