Can Storyboard help Reluctant Writers?
Storyboard can be very helpful to inexperienced and reluctant writers as well as adept authors. Students will talk about the topic or experience, while drawing the people and items associated with it, on the Storyboard. The adult can capture these words, also on the Storyboard, in the form of notes while the student is speaking. This helps the student’s enthusiasm flow and grow. The student is also making an unimpeded, happy connection with the work. These good feeling help maintain attention and commitment later while sentences are written. The sentence writing stage is reached when the Storyboard is covered in notes and decisions have been made as to which parts are to be written at the beginning, middle and end. The student can say the sentences our loud for each group of notes in turn. The adult can write down what the student is dictating, either by typing it into the computer, or onto paper. As the student finishes speaking, the finished piece of work can be immediately handed to
