The Picture-Word Inductive Model aims to enhance literacy in young children using images to connect with words, facilitating reading and writing skills. This approach aligns with national standards for language learning, emphasizing communication, comprehension, and cultural comparisons. The document outlines a detailed instructional process, illustrated through a French classroom example focusing on food and shopping vocabulary.

1. The Picture-Word Inductive Model
in the World Language Classroom
Catherine Ritz
Texas A&M University
EDCI 646: Instruction Theory
June 29, 2012

2. What is the
Picture-Word Inductive Model?
• Designed to help young children become
literate through the use of images as stimuli.
• Students make connections between the
images and the words, learn how they’re
spelled, learn how to read the words, and
learn how to write them.
• Natural connection to foreign-language
learning.

3. Connection to National Standards:
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL) Common Core Alignment
• Interpersonal Communication (Standard 1.1)
– Engage in the oral exchange of ideas in formal and informal situations.
– Self-monitor and adjust language production.
• Interpretive Communication (Standard 1.2)
– Demonstrate comprehension of content from authentic audio and visual
resources.
• Presentational Communication (Standard 1.3)
– Produce expository writing.
– Self-edit written work for content, organization, and grammar.
• Comparisons: Language (Standard 4.1)
– Demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons
of the language studied and one’s own.
• Comparisons: Cultures (Standard 4.2)
– Compare and reflect on products, practices, and/or perspectives of the target
culture(s) and one’s own culture.
http://www.actfl.org/files/Aligning_CCSS_Language_Standards_v6.pdf

4. Steps of the Model
1. Choose picture, and have students label what they see in
the picture. (Teacher add labels.)
2. Read and review the picture.
3. Classify the words identified (by grammatical function,
type of action, etc.).
4. Read and review again, saying the word, spelling it, and
saying it again.
5. Add any new words needed, then name the picture.
6. Students generate a sentence (or sentences) related to
picture.
7. Teacher helps put sentences together in a paragraph.
8. Read and review the sentences and paragraphs.

5. In the classroom…
French 1 class – either high school level or grade 7/8.
Thematic topic: food/shopping

6. Step 1: Label the words
vendre
un marché en plein air (to sell)
(open-air market)
une vendeuse
les fruits (saleswoman)
(fruit)
les légumes (m.) le prix
(vegetables) (price)
la cliente payer
(customer) (to pay) les haricots verts (m.)
(green beans)
les tomates (f.)
(tomatoes) les concombres (m.)
les poivrons rouges (m.)
(cucumbers)
(red peppers)

7. Step 2: Read and Review
vendre
un marché en plein air (to sell)
(open-air market)
une vendeuse
les fruits (saleswoman)
(fruit)
les légumes (m.) le prix
(vegetables) (price)
la cliente payer
(customer) (to pay) les haricots verts (m.)
(green beans)
les tomates (f.)
(tomatoes) les concombres (m.)
les poivrons rouges (m.)
(cucumbers)
(red peppers)

8. Step 3: Classify
NOUNS: food NOUNS: other VERBS
les fruits une vendeuse payer
(fruit) (saleswoman) (to pay)
les légumes (m.) la cliente vendre
(vegetables) (customer) (to sell)
les concombres (m.) le prix
(cucumbers) (price)
les poivrons rouges (m.) un marché en plein air
(red peppers) (open-air market)
les tomates (f.)
(tomatoes)
les haricots verts (m.)
(green beans)

9. Step 4: Read and Review again
vendre
un marché en plein air (to sell)
(open-air market)
une vendeuse
les fruits (saleswoman)
(fruit)
les légumes (m.) le prix
(vegetables) (price)
la cliente payer
(customer) (to pay) les haricots verts (m.)
(green beans)
les tomates (f.)
(tomatoes) les concombres (m.)
les poivrons rouges (m.)
(cucumbers)
(red peppers)

10. Step 5: Add New Words & Name
vendre
un marché en plein air (to sell)
(open-air market) Au marché en plein air!
une vendeuse
acheter les fruits (saleswoman)
(to buy) (fruit)
les légumes (m.) le prix demander
(vegetables) (price) (to ask)
la cliente payer
(customer) (to pay) les haricots verts (m.)
(green beans)
les tomates (f.)
(tomatoes) les concombres (m.)
les poivrons rouges (m.)
(cucumbers) faire les courses
(red peppers)
(to do the shopping)

11. Step 6: Students Generate Sentences
• Au marché en plein air, la cliente achète des fruits et des
légumes. (At the open-air market, the customer buys fruit
and vegetables.)
• La vendeuse vend des fruits et des légumes. (The
saleswoman sells fruit and vegetables.)
• La cliente achète des concombres, des poivrons rouges, et
des haricots verts. (The customer buys cucumbers, red
peppers and green beans.)
• La cliente demande le prix des tomates. (The customer
asks the price of tomatoes.)
• La cliente fait les courses au marché en plein air. (The
customer does the shopping at the open-air market.)
• La cliente paye. (The customer pays.)

12. Step 7: Put in Paragraph
Au marché en plein air, la cliente achète des fruits et des
légumes. La cliente fait les courses au marché en plein air. La
vendeuse vend des fruits et des légumes. La cliente achète
des concombres, des poivrons rouges, et des haricots verts. La
cliente demande le prix des tomates. La cliente paye.

13. Step 8: Read and Review
Au marché en plein air, la cliente achète des fruits et des
légumes. La cliente fait les courses au marché en plein air. La
vendeuse vend des fruits et des légumes. La cliente achète
des concombres, des poivrons rouges, et des haricots verts. La
cliente demande le prix des tomates. La cliente paye.