1. Learning about ways that meaning can be communicated through illustrations.
2. Learning about visual techniques used by illustrators.
3. Learning about storyboarding, and how illustrators use this tool to plan visual stories.

SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1. Identified different ways that story meaning can be shown in illustrations.
2. Used some illustration techniques to convey different feelings and emotions.
3. Used a storyboard template to plan an illustrated story.

• Think about the stories that you know. Can you list some stories that use both words and pictures? Can you think of some stories that use only pictures?
• Think about how YOU read a story with words and pictures. Do you read the words first and then look at the pictures? Or look at the pictures first? Or a combination of both?

• Nicki mentioned some of the different kinds of illustrated stories she has created. Can you remember what some of those types of stories are?
• David talked about how illustration can be different to the art that hangs in a gallery. What do you think might be some of the differences between ‘art that hangs in a gallery’ and art in a story book?
• Nicki and David discussed ways that illustration can be used to give a story meaning, and they both gave us some examples from their own work. 
  • Can you remember some of the things Nicki talked about?
  • Can you remember some of the things David talked about?
  • What other ways can illustrations give a story meaning?
• Nicki and David both talked about something called storyboarding.
  • What is the purpose of creating a storyboard?
  • How do you think a storyboard can help plan a story?