Illustrative Story Telling

 

 

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Unit: Story-telling

Theme: Illustrative story-telling using story books

 

Introduction

 Storytelling uses words to create new worlds and experiences in a reader or listener's imagination. Storytelling can impact human emotions. It can also lead people to accept original ideas or encourage them to take action. Today's class will train you to use story books to help improvise a story based on the book's illustrations.

 

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Learning Objectives

 

• Understand the importance of illustrations as a teaching tool
  
• Explain the importance of story-telling as a way to connect with children
  
• Gain awareness of the role illustrations play in students' imagination
• Experience the creative excitement of making a story up to gain children's attention
  

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Main Lesson

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Concepts

Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination

 

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 The art of Illustrative Story-telling

 

 Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work are used together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books.

 

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How to tell a story with illustrations

1. Ascertain what the mood is in the story.
2. Study the subjects to get to know what they are like.
3. Create loose sketches to capture the story's designs.
4. Adding movement brings drama and an edge to the illustrations.

 

Question 1

How can the tips listed above help you connect with your students in a more organic and genuine way?

 

 

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A Note to Remember

 

Stories let us share information in a way that creates an emotional connection. They help us to understand that information and each other, and it makes the information memorable. Because stories create an emotional connection, we can gain a deeper understanding of other people's experiences.

 

 

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 Case Study

 

 

 Case Studies: Book Illustrations for Visual Storytelling

 

 

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Discussion Questions

 

1. What are 3 benefits of story telling?

 

 

Benefits that highlight the importance of storytelling to kids.

• Storytelling Helps Teach Moral Values. ...
• Stories Introduce New Ideas. ...
• Storytelling Promotes Creative Thinking. ...
• Storytelling Enhances Language Development. ...
• Storytelling Helps Foster A Love Of Reading. ...
• Storytelling Builds Emotional Intelligence.

2. Why is storytelling so important?

 

Telling stories is one of the most powerful means that leaders have to influence, teach, and inspire. What makes storytelling so effective for learning? For starters, storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people.

 

3. What Makes Storytelling So Effective For Learning?

1. It connects learners

2. It offers something for everyone

3. Stories stick

 

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Activities

 

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Gather in groups and come up with an illustrative story based on the book assigned to your group.

 

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One group member shares the story with the rest of the class.

 

 

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Journaling

 

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Glossary

 

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Sources

 Boris, Vanessa.What Makes Storytelling So Effective For Learning?

https://www.harvardbusiness.org/what-makes-storytelling-so-effective-for-learning/

 

Yalanska, Marina. Case Studies: Book Illustrations for Visual Storytelling

https://blog.tubikstudio.com/book-illustrations-visual-storytelling/

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 Students' Work

 

 

STUDENTS' WORK

 Impromptu Lesson Plans

Team 1

Alexandria Garcia, Dylan Nottingham, Joe Piazza, Max Tauber

Title: Story-time

Objective: Encourage creativity via storytelling while maintaining high levels of engagement.

How would you teach it: Have a group of no more than 6 students sit in a circle where there are 3 images placed in front of them. The students will then take turns rearranging the images and creating their own story-line. This may include but is not limited to characters, backgrounds and setting. 

Moral: Students are taught that they can be anything or create anything. They have the opportunity to let their imagination roam freely. 

Assesment: Every students participation would stand as assessment as long as they participated to some capacity they have understood. 

Age range: 5-8 years old

 

Team 2

Olivia Conti, Sydney Hausman, Alejandro Barriga, Jason Egre, Alexander Hurtado

Title: Engagement music class

Objective: To teach children about music, problem solving , and using music in real life.

How Would We Teach This: Allow the children to add to the story, call out what instruments they recognize, play the DVD that was attached to the book to allow the students to learn and recognize what the instruments sound like together. Encourage dancing and movement, this is an active lesson. 

Moral: Music is fun, it can be heard or seen in all different ways. 

Ages: 7-9

 

Team 3

Gabriel Gutierrez, Gage Ziehl, Antonio Jimenez, Nick Robert

 

Title: Comprehending reading 

Objective: To get kids to think , to find the "bigger picture."

 Moral of the story: Being creative and connecting with the story. 

how would you teach it?: "Katies Suday afternoon''- We would read the book as a class , engage all the kids with the reading. I would dissect every page and ask questions. Let each student describe what the moral of the story was in their opinion. 

Moral story: Sometimes the solutions to your problems is right in-front of you. 

Asessment: Having students give their thoughts and express their ideas. 

Age : K-1

 

Team 4

 Nicole Tortora, Chloe Latessa, Paul Djobet

 

Title:Story telling

Objective: To actively engage listeners and demonstrate thinking on your feet!

Teach: Show the illustrations to the class; as you flip through the pages have the class actively come up with scenarios to how the story goes.

Moral Story: To learn creatively and imaginatively

Assessment: Reflect on the story by asking what was their favorite part of the story.

Age group: 6 year olds

 

Team 5

Nour Abduljawad, Carolina Garcia, Vivica Dunlap

 

Title:- Retelling our stories

Objective:- To allow students to use their own imagination , and creativity. To help students think outside the box.

How would you teach it : Giving students a story book, telling them not to read it, and telling them to create their own stories. And for a final exercise making students create a final page.

Moral Story:- Teaching students that stories can be changed despite how it was written

Assessment: Fill out a paper reflection on why they chose their story and what was their favorite story.

Age group-: 7 , and 8 year olds.

 

Team 6

Edua Atu, Hannah Scherer, , Connor Walsh, Tyler Egan, Binhong Dong

 

Title: Creative storytelling 

Objective: Use illustrations to create unique stories

How we would teach it: Put students in a circle, and put a common picture book in the middle of the circle. Allow students to take turns looking at the pictures in the book and creating their own narrative. They will move around the circle creating their own unique parts of the story. 

Moral: At the end of the lesson ensure all students knew what their unique class circle was about.

Age group:

Team 7

Martina Negro, Natasha Pokrajac, Sofia Garcia, Mia Romanach

 

Title: Story Time (Kindergarten to First Grade)

Objective: Teach the students an important lesson while maintaining engagement.

How we would teach it: Use an engaging book with interesting and colorful drawings that's not too long so they don't get bored.

Moral: To have the kids think outside the box and use their imagination to make their own morals for each story.

How would we assess if the students got it: Ask each student to give their own takeaways and share their favorite character and why. 

Age group:

Team 8

Kitty Dowd, Rita Grinfeder, John Kennedy, Renzo Gonzalez

 

Title : Teaching Storytelling through Pictures 

Objective : For students to understand the power of storytelling, be able to tell stories, teach students how to think differently then the normal story, create inferences based on observations. 

How would you teach it : Through reading a story with a group, then attempting to tell the story based only on the pictures in the book. This also teaches public speaking.

Moral of the Story : Viewing things through different perspectives can change how the story is told.

Assess : Having students come up with the story based on the pictures by presenting it to the class.

 Age Group = kindergarten