A lot of students find that writing their stories out by hand slows their story-telling down. Students with dyslexia or dysgraphia find this to be the case a lot, but it affects a lot of other students who write slowly.
One possible solution to this issue is to either dictate your stories or type them out. Since the technology is freely available, it can definitely be considered.
Dictation is available on Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, and other document software. You’ll need to use a microphone to tell the software your story. Laptops always have microphones and most desktop computers also have built-in microphones. If the desktop computer is too far away or the computer’s microphone doesn’t work well, USB microphones are readily available and inexpensive. A combination earbuds and microphone can be purchased for very little as even the least expensive models have microphones that work fine for dictation.
We’ve also found that if dictation is being used by a lot of students in a classroom, using individual USB earbud microphones work well as long as each student talks softly with the microphone close to the mouth.
The one downside to using dictation is that the software makes mistakes. The mistakes used to be common but the software has advanced enough that most of the time, there are few mistakes. Even when the software makes a mistake, though, it’s easy to quickly fix the problem. In fact, it’s usually better to just keep going with your story, then fix the mistakes after you’ve finished.
Herehow to enable dictation for Google Docs. Please note that you toggle on and off the microphone when you’re dictating your story. If you’re speaking and nothing is being added, check if the software microphone button is turned on.
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226?hl=en