General Picture Module: For picture module, I take a vivid, detail-rich picture and glue it to chart paper. Magazine pictures work great, but I took the ones above from a calendar. We always start picture module by giving the picture a title. I take suggestions from students. Sometimes we vote as a class on the titles and other times we work together to combine/mix several titles. Then we get to work on the picture. Before calling students up, I have a mystery word in mind. The student that guesses the mystery word receives a small treat. we mark the mystery word with a star, so students will remember it has been guessed already. I allow students to point out what they see in the picture and then I label it in their words. When students begin to run out of words, we draw a line and begin analysis of our words. Often we will count the number of words. Other times we will count the number of letters in the title. As we progress through the year, I might ask students to find how many Bs we used or to count the vowels. The possibilities are endless. After analyzing in the chosen manner, we will write a sentence together about the picture and practice reading it as a class.
Ideas for Taking it Further
These suggestions can help push picture module beyond the Kindergarten level if your child is ready for the challenge.
- Have your child analyze what types of words they used (adjectives, nouns, etc.)
- Challenge your child to only label adjectives or nouns
- After labeling, help your child think of synonyms for their words (Use a thesaurus if you want to take it even further!)
- Write more than a sentence at the bottom of the chart!
- Turn the module into a research project! help your child learn more about the content of the picture through books, internet research, or some type of activity.
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