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Activities Using Digital Photos to Increase Oral Language and Vocabulary
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- Have kids dress up in the career center.
- Take a series of pictures (1st step, 2nd step, etc) showing how to do something.
- Assign pairs of students to go on a walk through the school to find examples of geometric shapes or items that begin with target sounds.
- Create a virtual tour of your classroom. Have each student select an area to photograph and describe, then create a slideshow.
- Document growth of a school project: planting & growing of a class garden,
- Document the changing of the seasons by photographing the trees outside your classroom window throughout the seasons.
- Create a “School Rules” or “Class Rules” book complete with illustrations of acceptable behaviors (with your students posing as good behavior).
- Record a series of student pictures as they act out a story they’ve read or that another student has written. Use as illustrations for the story or as a means for telling what happened first, second, etc.
- Photograph art projects to put into a student portfolio.
- Give students a portion of a digital picture and have them guess what the picture is or use students and photograph a portion of the student.
- Take pictures during science experiments.
