Pepe: The Coolest Cat in Katmandu

For a course on teaching language arts, our final project was to create a fictional narrative on a digital platform – like a video or animation. After considering platforms like toontastic, which are easy to use but limit your creativity, I decided to take the plunge and try to use scratch for the story. The process was tedious, and the results are still not that polished. But the story below highlights the potential for scratch-based animated books that (with appropriate pauses and questions built in) could be used for “read-alouds” or even guided reading lessons (especially to build fluency).