Six Word Story Posters

My friend Abby posted this picture on Twitter and I loved it. It looks like one of those inspirational posters you find online about "Determination", "Confidence", or "Character".

Since it is February I started thinking of ways that students could make them for Black History Month. So I took a shot at it:

My initial thought is that Media Specialists (or classroom teachers) can have students make them in order to encourage other students to find out more. So the "six words" need to be a pretty good to draw people in. Here is my second attempt (see my play on tennis words there 😁?). I clearly like the black and white text.

What I really like is how quick the project would be to complete. Students could access some basic biographical information (via books or websites) and come up with their six sentences and make the posters easily in Google Drawings (which is what I used). The finished 8.5 x 11 "posters" could then be printed and displayed with some QR codes on where to find more information. We use Discus Britannica Elementary so I would direct students to that site to find out more.

Design Tip for Google Images

For research purposes you can direct students to:

Ducksters

ReadWorks

Biography Channel

Epic (they offer a free educators account that can be used at school)

If you give it a try please post a link in the comments or tag me, and Abby, on Twitter.

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