ESOL STRATEGIES FOR LITERATURE!!! Strategy 29

Strategy 29: Imaging

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards:

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LA.K.1.7.1 The student will make predictions about text content using pictures, background knowledge, and text features (e.g., title, sub-heading, captions, illustrations); 

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

ESOL Standards:
10)  Analyze student language and determine appropriate instructional strategies, using knowledge of phonology, morphology, syntax semantics, and discourse.


STEP BY STEP

1. Identify a curricular connection
2. Plan an introductory imaging activity
3. Create mental pictures through verbalization
4. Assess the students' understanding and progress
5. Add technology

To get students to image things, the teacher will verbally prompt the students to imagine a specific place. Some students may have difficult time with this at first, so a drawing pad might be helpful. Research has shown that imaging supports understanding in reading, and that poor readers often lack this skill. So identify a curricular area that each student could benefit from this skill, use the power of imaging to support their academic understanding. Introduce imaging as a way of helping them solve problems. Have students describe or draw what they are able to picture in their minds. You can even have students draw it on transparency paper and place it on the projector to share it with the class. 

A way you can apply this to literature is to have students read a chapter of a book of their choice. The student will then illustrate the chapter explaining the drawings and how they relate to the story.