Children Writing

Children write their own three-part stories, and work with other children in completing stories, using familiar word-processing-style tools.  read more...

 

Children Reading

Children can read our online soap story, and add content, pictures, or complete tasks. Children can read their own stories, their schoolmates', and stories written by children from around the world.  read more...

Children Working Together

Children can work with each other in writing stories, and you can link up with other schools around the world to create stories with a truly international flavour.  read more...

Kidscapism encourages creativity and excitement in your students by offering the opportunity for them to read, write and illustrate stories online. Access our teachers' blog/diary/news area here 

 

Children and ICT

Kidscapism encourages ICT literacy as well.  Children have to navigate around the site, read material, use our editor, handle images - many of the skills which form part of the ICT curriculum.    read more...

The Teacher's Role

Registered teachers have access to a unique classroom area (see e.g.) - for up to 30 children.  There is no need for children to log in.  You have complete control over content publication.  Children can follow up work at home. 

Security and Technical

We call you to confirm your identity.  No chatrooms or personal contact.

 

No software to install.  Fully protected servers and software.   read more...

 

Investment and Registration

Kidscapism costs £99 (or $200) per school per year for an unlimited number of classes, teachers, and children.

 

We need you to register with us, so that we can verify your status, ensure we have your details correctly entered, and set you up for work.  You will be able to have a good look round the facilities on the site before we take any money...

 

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Further Information

 

Adding Pictures - Draw with Kidscapism 

For the moment, this is not strictly drawing.  Children can upload pictures they have drawn (in Paint for example), they can upload pictures they have scanned in, or they could search for appropriate pictures online and upload them.  Pictures are

 
Enhancing Writing Skills with Kidscapism 

We’re talking beemies here   Beemies allow children to write the beginning, middle or end of a story.  Whilst a story can only have one beginning, a child could find that several other children have written a middle to their

 
Example Resources 

We have produced a variety of worksheets, and other suggestions for how to use Kidscapism effectively with different groups of children.  Please see below for a few examples.    There are many more of these available to logged in users.

 
Reading Kidscapism with children 

Firstly, there is our well established soap story – ‘The Kids are United’.  This has been running since October 2006, and is based around a fictional group of friends who sometimes play football together.  There are now twelve six part