Storyboards for Teaching
Storyboards are a teaching
technique that teachers can employ to help students understand the content of a
story. There are several ways to use storyboards in teaching. For example, you
can use them to illustrate a story or have your students make their own
storyboards to help them understand the subject or book you are teaching.
Teacher Telling Stories
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When children
are young and still learning to read, a teacher can make use of storyboards to
help them understand the story. While the teacher tells the children a story
she uses a storyboard that illustrates the scene she is describing. This method
of teaching helps children connect an audible lesson with an image.
Children Making Storyboards
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Children can
make their own storyboards based on the lessons they are learning, a story they
have read or some other aspect of class. This can be either an in-class
assignment or a project for homework. Have each student draw or construct a
storyboard that tells what happened in his lesson or the book that he has read.
Comparison
Lesson Storyboards
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Comparison
lessons that use storyboards can illustrate behavior alternatives to children
or young adults. For example, if you are teaching an anti-drug lesson, you can
put together a storyboard where a student refuses a drug and then walks away
happy, and then a second set of storyboards depicting the same situation, but
having the student accept the drugs with a sad consequence. This shows the
result that doing drugs will cause sadness later while refusing them will
result in happiness.
Child Storyboard for Writing
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Storyboards can
be used to give an idea of a story while it is still in the planning phases.
Teachers can use storyboard projects to help children plan for a writing
project. For example, a student might make a storyboard telling a short
creative writing story and then use the storyboard as the outline for the
story. She can then write the story out based on the illustrations she drew
during the planning phase.
