Storyboarding

=Storyboarding / Frame Stories= Stages of Writing - Prewriting, Drafting, Publishing Aspect of Writing - Meaning, Form, Style

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One can have students use paper and pencil to plan out their writing very effectively. I would even suggest printing blank templates from Comic Life to get students to think about scenes, events, and ordering. Writing a story within a blank frame of a comic helps to look at story elements as 'snapshots.' You Could could storyboard your characters, or events.

Storyboarding is generally done in the planning stages of a writing; however, Comic Life is an acceptable form of writing and publishing as well. Many classic novels are being re-written as graphic novels which make them high interest but lower reading difficulty.

Comic Projects can be used for preparing for longer text based stories, or they can be used to publish ideas that have traditionally been done in text form such as book reports and science experiments.

Consider:
 * How To .... with images and text


 * Each student summarizing a chapter of a class novel - then 'publishing' as a graphic novel


 * Retelling a field experience



Sample Grade 3 writing following the pattern from the book Last Night I followed my cat. My cat was asleep. I was asleep. My cat awoke. My cat dressed up. He went to get in a taxi.I woke up and didn’t see my cat, so I looked for him.I saw him in a taxi.





The following is another sample from Grade 3 writing a story from an animal's perspective. The students first wrote their story using a comic life blank frame.





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