Post on 22-Oct-2014
Using Pictures to Teach Writing
Benefits of Pictures
• Shared experience in the classroom• Common language for the classroom• Variety of tasks• Focus of students’ interest
General Strategies with Pictures
• Whole class discussion• Give audience for those who are writing• Pair work• Real communicative tasks - authentic materials brought by students• Impetus for enhancement or additional work
What do you see?
What do you see?
What do you see?
What?
• One picture• Picture sets• Diagrams, tables, graphs, charts• Maps
Examples of Activities
• Description• Comparison and contrast• Paragraph assembly• Sentence combining• Paragraph completion• Controlled composition• Guided composition• Questions and answers
What?
• One picture- multiple techniques- sequencing of tasks
• Picture sets• Diagrams, table, graphs, charts• Maps
One picture-multiple techniques
• Description• Description, comparison, contrast• Paragraph assembly• Sentence combining• Paragraph completion• Controlled composition• Guided composition• Role-play• Questions and answer• Beyond picture
One picture-multiple techniques
Your task is to identify which technique can be used for individual, pair, small group or big
class work?
One picture-sequencing
• Big group• Small group• Pair work• Individual work
• What is the best sequence?
Picture Sets
• for guided and free writing (depends on students’ ability)
• provide subject matter for narrative exercises• activities for using picture sets can be
conducted by using sequencing guidelines in the previous slide
Diagrams, Tables, Graphs, Charts and Maps
• provide visual framework• provide real information• suitable for communicative tasks• more information presented, more potential
tasks available
Others
• For the others follow Raimes