Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words
by Julie Williams
This week I decided to choose an article about how to help your child in their writing ability with storyboards. Storyboards are a very hands on way to help students organize or even brainstorm about what they want to say with a series of pictures or illustrations. The article talks about helping a third grader's struggles in learning how to write. It talks about how in first grade all teachers are trying to do is help put words on paper, but by third grade students are expected to come up with whole ideas and work on putting them down in logical ways. The author gives some wonderful suggestions and tips on how to help guide the writer into a more organized way of writing.
The storyboard is a great way of organizing ideas that has been used for a long time. Most of the time when a student, especially a younger one, has to write about something they might have a hard time organizing their thoughts and ideas. If a student is writing about a recent trip they may be so excited about all that they did that their ideas and thougths might be really jumbled around. This might even cause them to become restless and quit the whole thing due to their attention span being challenged. The storyboard is a wonderful tool in organizing all of the thoughts and details of the subject and put them into more of a logical pattern. It also can really help the students come up with all type of creative ideas that they otherwise might not even have thought of. This type of technology isn't just being used in the classroom but also its used by lawyers, scientists and all different types of business.
I believe that the storyboard is a great tool to use in the classroom with practically any type of age group. Even in my own studies, I have found that if I'm really excited to write about something my thoughts are all over the place and things start to run together. If I didn't have a way to organize my manic brain my work might come out in a unlogical way. I'm 29 years old, I could only imagine what the brain of an 10 yr old is doing. The use of the storyboard is, in my opinion, a very hands on way to help promote thought organization and really giving a student a way to think outside of the box.
After reading this article I definitely understand more about what a storyboard is and how it can be a very effective tool in the classroom. It would be interesting to see how well younger students can stay on topic and not let the drawing of pictures distract them from the writing. It would also be interesting to find out how high school students fare with using storyboards.
If you'd like to check out the article I wrote about feel free to find it here:
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Storyboarding_Use_pictures_help/
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4 comments:
I agree that storyboards seem like a great idea for kids. Its often difficult for a child to put all their ideas into words and arrange them in a logical pattern. But when creating a storyboard they get an option they can work with. By using pictures and key words they are able to arrange everything running through their minds. I also think it will be good for fostering creativity. I had the same reservation you expressed about storyboards. Will the children become distracted by them and soley concentrate on drawing. It would be great to do research on that.
I think you always do a great job on your blogs, and explaining to us what you read and how you feel about the subject. I agree with you, and I believe that storyboards are a great tool to use in the classroom as well. You gave us an example about you, which made us relate to the article as well, and made us think how much storyboards can help us too. After reading your article I definitely understand more about what a storyboard is and its effectiveness in the classroom. You did a great Job!
I like how well you describe the storyboards. I agree with it being a good way to stay organized on the idea the person has. I think that it is good for any age group as well and will be able to be used as they grow older in their professions. Different ideas run through people's minds when thinking of websites, this helps put them in order and organize them instead of just having things written everywhere on different pieces of paper.
The way you write your blogs is amazing. The way you are able to describe everything in such great detail without having to write like another article is great. I agree with what you have to say about storyboards, the article that you found was an excellent resourse.
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