Birthday Buzz Australian Edition app for iPhone and iPad

Learn Story boarding . Explore the title and picture on the cover of Birthday buzz. Then make a prediction about the storyline. Listen to the story and follow as each word is underlined. Find out if your prediction matches the storyline. Put the jumbled events of the story in the right order.

Key learning objectives

- Students make a prediction about a storyline by exploring the title and illustration on a books cover.
- Students interpret a visual text.
- Students identify the sequence of events in a story by putting them in the correct order on a storyboard.

Educational value

- Encourages students to investigate the features of a book’s cover.
- Requires students to make a prediction about the storyline, using the illustration and title on the books cover.
- Includes an animated story with underlined words to support one-to-one matching of spoken words to written text.
- Provides opportunities for students to put a sequence of jumbled events in order.
- Includes an option to print a sequencing task related to the story.
- Designed for use on interactive whiteboards by early years users. For example, selectable elements have been positioned to allow users to easily reach them.