Scratch Across Every Subject: Literacy

Scratch Across Every Subject: Literacy

Scratch is a great tool for deepening and extending reading and writing. Students can record phoneme sounds, design interactive book reports, create autobiographical music videos and so much more.!

We’ve started assembling Resources and Scratch Projects and we’d love your input! If you have lesson plans, activities, websites, videos, example projects, or something else to share—add them to the comments and we'll update this resource.

Resources

There are a number of Stories and Resources on ScratchEd that offer ideas for integrating Scratch into literacy and ELA classrooms.  Here are some of our favorites: 

• ScratchEd Story: Creative Computing and Literacy at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• ScratchEd Story: Using Scratch to Expand Literacy, an interview with first grade teacher Morgan Kayman on her experiences using ScratchJr to promote literacy in her classroom.

• The MIT Scratch Team offers Scratch Cards, which includes a set of Story Cards .

• The Scratch Cross-Curricular Integration Guide, which includes a section on Literacy.

• An article about developing literacy skills from the Literacy from Scratch program.

• The Literacy from Scratch website is a cross-curriculuar, collaborative project dedicated to using Scratch to support pupil learning in the UK.

• Unit 3 of the Creative Computing Guide is focused on using Scratch for storytelling.

 

Projects 

Here are some of our favorite literacy-related projects on Scratch.  Send us a link to your favorite projects in the comments section and we'll add them to the list!