Strategy: Visual Image Representations
Tool: picture or chart/graph
Basics
Time: 5 minutes
Room Arrangement: No adjustment necessary
Materials: picture or chart/graph
Time: 5 minutes
Room Arrangement: No adjustment necessary
Materials: picture or chart/graph
Process Directions
1. When explaining a concept to students, use pictures, a chart, or a graph to help illustrate that concept. 2. Either hand out a copy of the picture to the students, or ask them to copy it onto their own paper. 3. Students may even want to create their own variation of the picture/chart/graph. |
Example
When using cookies to illustrate what a bar graph is, use pictures of cookies as the item numbers, as shown above.
When using cookies to illustrate what a bar graph is, use pictures of cookies as the item numbers, as shown above.
Taken and adapted directly from a Powerpoint presentation that was adapted from:
Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.