This study is based on teachers ‘perception of how digital tools affect pupils' ability to write in the subject Swedish in the 4th grade. The purpose is to investigate how the teachers use and work with digital tools in writing lessons during the Swedish lessons. The questions that the study will be based on are: How do the Swedish teachers use the digital tool, tablet, in their Swedish education? How does the Swedish teacher in the 4th grade perceive the spelling and writing of the pupils by the digital tool, tablet? The study consists of qualitative methods based on observations and interviews. Data has been collected through four observations with two teachers and four interviews with four teachers. The result has shown that all teachers use the tablet as a digital tool in the writing course, in the Swedish subject. The main tool is used in teaching to produce texts in different forms, but also for all pupils to feel involved regardless of the intended ability or needs. The result also shows that teachers feel that the use of digital tools influences pupils' motivation for learning mostly positively. Two of the teachers think that traditional writing reinforces the writing skills of pupils because they can practice writing letters while the other two teachers prefer to use the tablet as pupils perform better in writing. Furthermore, the result has shown that text writing on the tablet has led the pupils to develop and process their texts more compared to handwriting. Tablet use can also have positive and negative effects on pupils' writing development. The conclusion of the study is that the use of the tablet typically has a positive effect on the pupils' writing development in the production of texts.