Digital books

If you would like to use digital books in your classroom, you need to first choose the right book. There are several rubrics and evaluation criteria available for evaluating and assessing digital books. The choice of a rubric/of the evaluation criteria will depend on your learning goals and teaching objectives. Do you want the app/digital book to support children’s reading for pleasure or digital literacy or perhaps writing skills? Here are some rubrics currently available.

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This column outlines the possibilities for implementing digital books in the classroom. It specifies that teachers need to decide on the purpose or objective of the activity before implementing digital books. 

Evidence

Evidence on the positive impact and effects of digital books is only emerging. We have endeavoured to list where relevant in the text those sources which you will find most helpful when considering this MESHGuide.

We invite colleagues interested in building the evidence base for practice to contact us via enquiries@meshguides.org.

This MESHGuide has been designed to provide evidence on effective use of digital books with early years and primary school-aged children.