Part Three: Try It Out!
Team member’s name: Mariell Ramirez
Name of strategy implemented: Picture this!
With whom the strategy was implemented (grade-level/content Student/participant examples and pictures (if available) to
area, other teachers, etc.): A kindergarten student from my class. document the outcome of the strategy attached.
Sociocultural Benefits
Picture This! is an activity that facilitates sociocultural interaction,
since while the students are coming up with words/ideas of what
they are seeing in the pictures, they are working together and
learn from each other.
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Linguistic Benefits
Group the students in a way that they can benefit from each other Picture This! allows CLD students to consolidate and build new
and maximize the experience.
vocabulary. Since it can be done in group CLD students can get the
benefit of learning from their peers and reaffirm what they think
they new or build a new concept.
Academic Benefits
Through this activity the CLD students have the opportunity to
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acquire new vocabulary and concepts and therefore, become
Get CLD students try to come up with some random words or
more proficient in the new language.
It also gives the student time to acclimate and anticipate what the ideas and the let them work in peers to clarify, confirm or add
teacher is going to introduce. This helps the students prepare for new information about what they already knew.
learning.
Cognitive Benefits
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This activity is a great strategy to introduce new themes and
In my case (weather and seasons) I was able to help my students concepts. Because making that connection with their prior
build a new concept based on what they knew before from their knowledge would help the teacher build a bridge between what
previous experience with the weather here and the weather from students already know and what she wants them to learn.
where their family were from (if they knew).
Also using image support is always a good resource to use with
I would recommend to the teacher to make sure she activates
CLD students to help them visualize what they are learning.
prior knowledge by asking questions and leading the observation
and discussion part. This is going to help her students be prepare Classroom Tips:
to accommodate the new concept.
Provide different kind of questions to encourage student’s
reflections and guide them towards the objective of the activity(in
this case identify weather/season)
Questions for the team regarding implementation of the strategy (e.g., length of time, supplementary materials, recommendations
for implementing/adapting the strategy) written as a bulleted list by the team member who implemented the strategy.
- This activity should be cover in about 45 minutes.
- The teacher can use a head projector to project the images to the whole class.
- The teacher can lead the observation to make sure the students are looking at all the details in the image she wants to highlight.
- She can ask questions such as: have you seen this before? Where? How do you think you would feel if you were there again? Etc. To
make sure she brings up that previous knowledge and that she can create that bridge to connect with the new vocabulary.
- I would recommend the teacher to write on the board all the ideas the students are coming up with. This will help them go back and
reinforce that what they knew built the base for what they are learning now.