For nearly two decades, classroom teachers and university faculty have been using Inanimate Alice to engage, motivate, and inspire students of all ages. Inanimate Alice offers a unique reading experience that allows educators to teach an array of critical skills: problem-solving, critical thinking, multimodal decoding, and more. When episodes are paired with content in the curriculum guides, reading and learning come alive.
Click on the images, below, to read about the exciting ways educators bring Alice's adventures into their classrooms.
Associate Provost of Education
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Welcome to the Kick-Off with Inanimate Alice course! This comprehensive learning suite is the first in a sequence of courses designed to support teachers in the integration of the multimodal digital narrative series, Inanimate Alice.
Kick-Off with Inanimate Alice is designed to align with episodes 1 and 2 of the narrative series, ideally suited for students in grades 3 ‐ 5. These episodes provide readers with short, simple-to-navigate digital reading experiences as they get to know Alice, her digital friend Brad, and her parents.
The curriculum for this course is presented as a series of modules. It offers educators an array of teaching invitations to immerse their students in engaging, interdisciplinary learning. Aligned with curriculum standards and shaped by the Read, Imagine, Create, Share (RICS) Framework, Kick-Off with Inanimate Alice provides guidance and support for teachers, community-based educators, and families to optimize learning with Inanimate Alice, both in and out of school.
Contents:
To begin
- Introduction
- Meet Inanimate Alice
- Tools and Support
Learning Modules
- Meet Alice – Adventure in China
- Exploring China with Alice
- Family Holiday in Italy
- Imagining and Exploring Italy
- Alice in Australia
- Exploring Australia with Alice
- Creating an Adventure in Australia
- ST&RT with Alice – the Game!
- Alice’s Design Workshop
- Inanimate Alice Family Showcase
- Teaching Tools and Resources