For teachers | Apple Pip Bus

How to ride with a class

Read a stop aloud.
Compare the two pieces and answer the questions out loud.
Write on paper. Ask each child to change something in it on their own.

Nothing a child types or draws is saved or sent. Children need no accounts. Printing opens your own browser’s print window.

Share the bus

The Share the bus page has twelve small question cards, each with the bus picture and the web address. Print them, cut them out and hand one to a friend, a classmate or a family. They are free to print.

The Picture Walk

The Picture Walk is a quiet extra stop. A child points at the kettle, the lamp, the rain, the moon or the pear tree in one picture, picks a mood, and reads a piece Angela wrote about it. Only pieces that exist for that object and mood are offered, and the reading age rule is the same as on the ride. There is a list view, a quiet mode and an optional notebook the child can copy or print. Nothing is saved or sent.

The Remix stop

On the Spring Street route, the Remix stop shows Angela’s story starter one sentence at a time. A child keeps her sentence or writes a whole sentence of their own. Nothing is suggested for them, and no one asks them to swap single words. They can skip any sentence and any question.

A panel called “My version so far” shows every sentence in order, with Angela’s marked as hers. The version stays on the page only. Ask children to copy it or print it before they leave the page.