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James Karales. Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965.

Picturing America Programs for Children

Program Models from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

• Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

• The Whole Book Approach

Sample Programs

Visual Thinking Strategies

This slide is from the website vtshome.org.

www.vtshome.org

• What’s going on in this picture?

• What do you see that makes you say that?

• What else can you find?

Visual Thinking Strategies Questions

What’s going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

“We’re asking students to defend their thinking,

to articulate their thoughts and defend

them.”

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18, April2009

Michelle RheeChancellor, D.C. Public School System

What else can we find?

The Role of the VTS Facilitator

•Point

•Paraphrase

The Role of the VTS Facilitator

•Point

•Paraphrase

•Accept Ideas

•Link Comments

Megan Lambert, Instructor of Children’s LiteratureThe Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

www.picturebookart.org

Whole Book Approach Questions

Why was a landscape format chosen?

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