Discovering meaning!

Discovering meaning!
Students are rearranging words to make meaningful sentences

jueves, 25 de febrero de 2016

More Multisensory Literacy Building Visual Activities for Young Learners

Good morning everyone! Today is a somewhat grey and snow- flurry,  hazy day in Toronto where I am writing this entry.   A perfect day for writing and researching and sharing information!

Several of my students have asked for more literacy building activities as they are now doing their practice teaching in real classrooms.  For the past several years  I have been keeping a Pinterest board which has grown quite large but which more importantly has helped me to organise my interests and wonderful, exciting, inspiring,  and creative information around my interests.

I am a very visual person and have worked for the past 25 years as a teacher and teacher trainer learning about and coming to better understand the power of the image to express meaning, build memory, prompt and support  the productive skills (speaking and writing), support comprehension, make learning visible, provide comprehensible feedback, connect with the family and ohhh the list just goes on and on, which is why I use anything "visual" at all parts and stages and for any subject or age group in my classes!

So, for this reason, and in answer to my students´ questions, I thought today´s shorter entry, could be a very visual overview of  several  more hands-on, multi sensory, student-as -protagonist, literacy building activities. What better way to do this, then to direct you to my Pinterest Board entitled Great Literacy Activities.

Here is the link!  https://es.pinterest.com/theresazanatta/great-literacy-building-activities/

If you like what you see, and you have some time, you may also want to check out several of my other teaching and learning- related boards!

Happy browsing!

Theresa