Storyboards

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/voice/voice131.shtml

This article explains storyboarding as an excellent strategy for reflecting students' comprehension of a specific type of material. It also stresses how storyboarding can help students to gather and organize their scattered ideas. Storyboarding is most often used by elementary reading teachers. A storyboard is a collection of illustrations that portray the main ideas of each scene or idea in the reading material. Other ways to incorporate storyboarding would be to illustrate various characteristics of a topic, such as such as "How a Bill becomes a Law."

For students who have many great ideas, but just can’t seem to get them down on paper with some sort of organization and detail, a storyboard is great for them. When the students break each section or seine up into little parts they are able to tell just that section of a story with extended detail. I feel that these techniques should not only be stressed at the elementary level to organize ideas, but should be stressed at the high school level to emphasize strong detail with in a story or writing. Sometimes the things we learn in our earliest years are the most important, and if we forget these simple kinder techniques then it makes everything much more difficult.

Further research would not be too imperative because storyboarding is more of a broad idea than a strict guide line. I feel that the best executions of storyboarding in the classroom would come spontaneously in a classroom when the teacher just doesn’t feel that the students are up to par on the subject.