Provide students with a question or prompt to answer with a storyboard using textual evidence. The example prompt is, "Alec is viewed as a kind, caring person. What actions demonstrate these character traits?" Possible answers to the prompt include:
Other prompts might include: “Did Alec change over the course of the story? Why or why not?” and “Explain how Alec’s decision to keep the Black greatly impacted others.”
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that answers the prompt using at least three examples from The Black Stallion. Click on "Add / Delete Cells" to change the number of examples.
Empower students to locate and select the best evidence by modeling strategies and providing clear criteria. Students gain confidence and accuracy when they know what strong text evidence looks like and how to find it in the text.
Read a passage aloud and verbalize your thought process as you search for evidence. This helps students see how to connect the question to specific details in the story.
Share a simple checklist (for example: Is it specific? Does it directly support my answer? Is it from the right part of the text?). Students can use this as a guide to evaluate their choices.
Pair students and have them work together to find and discuss possible evidence for a prompt. Collaboration builds skills and helps students learn from each other's thinking.
Invite students to share their chosen evidence and explain why it’s strong. Highlighting good examples reinforces the skill and motivates students to improve.
A text evidence storyboard for The Black Stallion is a graphic organizer where students answer a prompt using at least three examples from the book. They paraphrase or quote directly from the text and illustrate each example to support their answer.
Guide students to identify key actions or dialogue that reveal character traits or plot events. Encourage them to paraphrase or quote the text, and use a storyboard or spider map to organize their examples visually.
Effective prompts include: "How does Alec show kindness?", "Did Alec change during the story?", and "How did Alec’s decisions affect others?" These encourage students to back up their answers with specific examples from the book.
Have students draw scenes, characters, or objects that represent the examples they selected. Using storyboard cells, they can visually demonstrate how each piece of evidence supports their answer.
A spider map lets students place the central question in the middle and branch out with supporting evidence. This structure helps them visually connect their examples to the prompt, making their reasoning clearer.