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Teaching and Learning with Inanimate Alice:
Introducing Standards-Based Curriculum

Welcome to the new age of reading. Inanimate Alice is an innovative, interactive digital tale that transforms storytelling! Its multimodal construction invites readers to immerse themselves in Alice’s story; reading becomes more like playing games as they read, play, imagine, and create their own adventures. Inanimate Alice turns the reading experience into an engaging and authentic literacy learning experience for today’s readers. The journey starts here.

Inanimate Alice can help you create authentic, immersive literacy experiences for the young readers in your life. The journey starts here.

Inanimate Alice provides the tools to create a multiliteracy approach to teaching and learning that leverages students’ natural inclinations to learn through play. As students read, imagine, create, and share (RICS), they develop other critical literacies.
Multi-literacy in Inanimate Alice

A key feature of the text is the fact that Inanimate Alice has such a powerful female lead character whose situation demands that from an early age she must make her way in the world while learning not only to survive but to thrive in a technology-driven world. This makes it the ideal vehicle for teaching young people about empathy, citizenship and social responsibility, enabling them to become true global citizens in an age when the future of the planet depends on the skills and abilities of the new generation.

– Bill Boyd, Literacy Adviser