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Published November 2014 Filed in Assistive Technologycategory

Activities with Digital Photos to Increase Oral Language and Vocabulary

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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.

Tags: Comprehension, Foundation blocks, Instruction, language, Technology, Visual Supports

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