The article I read talked about one class's experience with storyboarding. In the class were several students who were reluctant to write and one student who was labeled Special Education. The author of the article, who also guided the class in how to proceed with their stories, discussed the basics of storyboarding as a tool to eventually get a story on paper. He first had the students get a story from their parents, find the part in the story that was funny, interesting, scary, ect. (known as the hook), and draw simple pictures with few words to describe the story's main events. Because the actual writing process was not done until the very end, more students were engaged and were able to efffectively lay out their story so that revisions and final writing would be easier.
Storyboarding is a great tool to use in the classroom. It not only involves students that are normally uninterested, but it also strengthens the writing of the more involved students. Additionally, storyboarding gives the student more direct and quick access to teacher feedback. In the article, students presented their storyboards to the class and were able to get feedback from fellow students as well.
I never used storyboarding in my classroom experience, but after reading this article I wish my teachers would have used this. I think storyboarding brings a collaborative aspect to classroom writing. Students give and receive feedback but also learn how they can improve their own stories simply by hearing the stories of the other students. I also think storyboarding gives the teacher the ability to get a better understanding of where a student is headed with his or her writing and can therefore better assist the student, instead of merely covering the student's paper with comments written in red ink.
As seen in this article, storyboarding is an effective tool for teaching students to express ideas or stories through writing. But I wonder if it could be effective in teaching other things as well like mathematical or scientific processes. I think further research on this could be very beneficial for both students and teachers.
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3 comments:
I found your article to be very interesting. I hadn't really thought about being able to use the storyboard for quick feedback to a student's work. I think it is a great idea to present them to a class and let the students respond to the work. I hope to be able to find a way to effectively use storyboarding in my classroom, even though I plan on teaching kindergarten or first grade. I feel the way you do: I wish my teachers had implemented this, too!
I also found your article to be interesting!!! It is a good tool to use with students with learning disabilities as well as normal students. I can only imagine the interest it puts into the student being able to creatively outline their story. It is a much more interesting and intriguing way to get students attention. I wish all of these techniques were used when I was in school!
I really liked your article! It was very different from mine because mine talked about how teachers use storyboarding to plan out their lessons. I think yours was a wonderful way to get students engaged in the classroom. I think that storyboarding to help students write and see what they are writing is a great teaching tool!
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