Instructional Material #4 Response Sheet
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1) This instructional material are pictures of the visual lesson goal and sentence starter posters
used throughout the lesson featured in the video entry, as well as during all instructional time in
the classroom. The visual lesson goal poster identifies the 3rd grade social studies standard in
cultural anthropology, viewing, listening, and speaking standards written in student friendly “I
will” statements. The visual lesson goal poster also includes pictures of eyes, a visual for
viewing, an ear, a visual for listening, and a mouth, a visual for speaking. The lesson goal poster
was posted in the front of the classroom, to the left of the Smartboard for effective visual access
for all students. The visual sentence starter poster has the same pictures related to viewing,
listening, and speaking, as well as the sentence starters, “I see” and “Because of what I see, I
wonder” related to viewing, “Can you tell me more about” and “I’m also wondering” related to
listening, and “What I mean is” and “What do you mean by” related to speaking. The sentence
starter poster was posted on the bottom of the Smartboard, in the front of the classroom, right at
eye level for the students and where they sat for the small and whole group discussions during
each student presentation on their family cultural tradition.
2) The visual lesson goal and sentence starter posters were used to review the lesson goals and
sentence starters of the cultural anthropology lesson. Along with the use of the PowerPoint
slides, these posters were very useful because the students had visual access of these while
presenter’s showed the slide (only thing visible during actual presentation) of their family
cultural tradition. The visual posters were also valuable during other instructional periods
throughout the day because they served as resources and sentence starters in facilitating any
collaborative conversation or whole group discussion. I observed many students using these
sentence starters to facilitate discussion during other instructional times, like Reader’s/Writer’s
workshop, Math, and Science.
Listening, Speaking, Viewing, Visual Literacy
EMC/LRLA
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