Lit Tip: Show Me Your Story
This week’s Lit Tip focuses on Storyboarding and telling a story through images or pictures. Storyboarding is an excellent tool for reluctant writers, emergent writers, and creative writers. Not only does it allow for children to plan their writing and express themselves visually, but it enables access to creative and successful writing for all students. As children plan and add details to their drawings, they begin to bring their writing to life, think about their audience, and incorporate elements that might otherwise be lost in going straight to traditional writing.
Storyboarding is also an excellent tool for reading comprehension! After a story is read, have your child storyboard it, change the ending, or add their own scenes. Children become more engaged readers when they can truly interact with a story.
Wordless picture books make fantastic resources for storyboarding. Check out the picture books mentioned in our Lit Tip.
Books:
* Letter Lunch by Elisa Gutierrez @owlkidspublishing
* Mirror by Jeannie Baker @candlewickpress
* Unspoken: A Story from The Underground Railroad by Henry Cole @scholasticinc
* Pool by Jihyeon Lee @chroniclebooks
