New Features: Reading and Writing Support

New Features: Reading and Writing Support

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve launched some awesome new features to help children that are still developing their reading and writing skills. New writing prompts! Ask children to visit the WRITE button on their menu. We’ve added a whole series of writing prompts for children to work on! Each prompt comes complete with writing support. We provide children with help in structuring the beginning of their story. We also provide children with punctuation support throughout this process. Once children […]

Twenty Writing Prompts for 2020

Twenty Writing Prompts for 2020

2020 marks a lot of new beginnings, which might be difficult for children to understand. It marks the start of a new year but also, even a new decade! We thought it would be fun to serve up some fresh new writing prompts to help your children better understand what all the buzz about a new year is about. What better character to deliver these prompts, but Maji the Time Travelling Elephant? She knows a lot about new years!

10 ways to encourage your child to want to write.

10 ways to encourage your child to want to write.

Let’s face it. Some children are natural born storytellers with creativity and imagination spilling from their fingers. For them, exploring creative writing is just the beginning of a beautiful journey. However, for some children, getting them to want to write is a tedious and stressful task. While writing might not come naturally to every child, this does not mean that your child can’t eventually learn to really love creative writing! This blog explores how to encourage your child to want […]

Fall/Autumn Writing Prompts – 2019

Fall/Autumn Writing Prompts – 2019

These prompts are designed to spark creativity and imagination within children. We encourage children to think about what they like about the season fall, but also ask them to create characters that would fit within a ‘fall environment’. Other writing ideas encourage the child to write about a memory they have about fall or an opinion they might have about it.

How an Elementary Teacher incorporated Night Zookeeper into their daily timetable

How an Elementary Teacher incorporated Night Zookeeper into their daily timetable

We’re extremely lucky to work with some of the most amazing teachers in the world, as the Night Zookeeper community continues to grow every day! It’s always great to hear about what they’re loving and what they’re finding challenging, as well as how they’re using Night Zookeeper in their unique situations. We thought that it was a little selfish to keep these stories all to ourselves, so we want to start sharing them with you on a weekly basis. This […]

Short Writing Challenges!

Short Writing Challenges!

With the launch of nightzookeeper.com 2.0 we added our newest feature, short writing challenges, which are perfect for independent learning. These new writing challenges are all focused on helping to improve the spelling, grammar and vocabulary of students. They are all automatically assessed by our smart algorithm, so you don’t have to moderate any of the writing that students produce. You can simply check in on their performance on your dashboard results table. As students grow their Night Zoo they […]

25 creative writing prompts for kids to get imaginations flowing!

25 creative writing prompts for kids to get imaginations flowing!

We love creative writing at Night Zookeeper. In fact, we love it so much we made an entire website to inspire children to produce creative writing! But sometimes a teacher just needs some exciting prompts to get their student’s imaginations flowing and writing. That’s why we have made this list of 25 creative writing prompts that will get your children inspired and writing in no time! Please check out the list below and try them with your students! You find […]

A school in Norfolk is dramatically improving writing skills. Here’s how:

A school in Norfolk is dramatically improving writing skills. Here’s how:

Langham Primary School has been using the digital writing website nightzookeeper.com, for the past three years, with some amazing results. “22% of the students made a year’s worth of progress in just one term. One child made incredible progress during that term – 6 points!” Emma Cotton, Class 3 teacher,  gives her feedback on the impact of using nightzookeeper.com in the classroom. “I had heard about Night Zookeeper at the Norfolk ICT Conference a few years ago and thought it […]

How a district in Indiana is inspiring a love of writing!

How a district in Indiana is inspiring a love of writing!

Hamilton Southeastern is a school district in the state of Indiana that has twelve elementary schools with over 5,000 students in attendance. Since 2016 the district has been using our writing website, nightzookeeper.com, as a teaching and learning tool for all of their elementary schools.   The website is designed to get students writing, reading and creating. Teachers can either let students explore themselves and complete lessons that the website provides based on a student’s age, or they can choose […]

Getting Started on Night Zookeeper

Getting Started on Night Zookeeper

Welcome to the wonderful world of Night Zookeeper. This blog post has been written to help you get to grips with nightzookeeper.com and give you support throughout your 14-day trial. The perfect 14-day trial! Day 1: Download and print your student invitations (15 mins) These are emailed to your inbox upon registering. You can also download them from your class account page within your settings. They provide very clear instructions to help students get registered on the website, which they […]

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