How to Do a Story Board for 3rd Grade
The process of storyboarding was created by Walt Disney in the 1930's. This process is for the purpose of creating a pictorial time-line of events in order to graphically tell a story to the audience. This practice can be taught to elementary stories as a way of integrating art into language arts. Storyboarding is used to tell a story to cinematographers and help them visualize the images in order to detect possible problems. When used in the elementary classroom, it is simply a way of bringing a word story to life through pictorial images.
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Things You'll Need
- Note cards
- Construction paper
- Markers, crayons or paint
- Glue
- Poster board
Instructions
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Have students decide what they will create a storyboard for. They can either use a story that they have read in class, or they can use their imagination and create new story. Another idea is to take a pre-existing story or characters and create a new tale using them. For example, students could use the characters from "Toy Story" to create a new adventure. This would give them a premise to use for characters and their background, but still allow them to use their imagination and be creative.
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Make note cards that tell the story in words. This will allow the students to create specific pictures for each event in the story. They will use the note cards and design an image to go along with it. Using this technique helps the students to visualize the story in their heads by giving them written words to go by.
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Create images on half pieces of construction paper that bring life to the story that is written on the note cards. Have students distribute the different note cards and work on different parts of the story at the same time. Students will need to illustrate and color each of the scenes in order to bring as much life to the story as possible. Have students place a number on each of their finished pieces in order to tell where it belongs in the story.
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Place the individual illustrations in order onto a large piece of poster board. The pictures will be placed just as if you were reading them in a book, left to right and then starting a new row on the left margin. Use glue to adhere the pictures to the board and allow them to dry sufficiently.
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Have students "tell" their story to the rest of the class. If this project was done in small groups, this will present each group with the opportunity to share what they have created. Hang the storyboard in the hallway to display for other classes.
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