The document provides ideas for using photos to enhance literacy skills and student achievement. It discusses the importance of visual literacy and gives examples of how to analyze photos using questioning techniques. A variety of digital tools and activities are presented that use photos to develop literacy, such as sequencing photos, storytelling, and questioning activities.

1. Photos Galore Presented by Pauline McLeod and Sheree Harvey

2. Our Learning Goal: To give ideas to improve visual literacy skills in your students. To give as many different ways of using photos to enhance your literacy programme and increase student achievement. To demonstrate different digital tools allowing you to increase your “Kete” of presenting photos to increase student achievement.

3. References http://www.prel.org/products/re_/look_see.pdf http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland02/proceedings/papers/ellen_sims_et_al.pdf Why is visual literacy important? http:// www.oaklandmuseumofcalifornia.net/picturethis/visual.html We live in an increasingly visual culture. We are surrounded by images everywhere in our lives. By looking at and studying photographs with your students, you will help them better understand the complexities of their world. Visual literacy is defined as the ability to understand communications composed of visual images as well as being able to use visual imagery to communicate to others. Students become visually literate by the practice of visual encoding (expressing their thoughts and ideas in visual form) and visual decoding (translating and understanding the meaning of visual imagery). It is important that students learn to recognize and understand the often-complex messages of photographic images. Consistent with this goal, this website provides students with tools needed to critically examine their visual world. By participating in picture students will: learn to appreciate and analyze photographs .

4. Where? When? How? What? Why? Who? Good questioning is essential to help students get the best from their images. Remember to move up the Blooms/ Solo Taxonomy to achieve higher order thinking.

5. Things to remember when taking photos. Place safety cord around neck. Look at subject closely.. Macro Look for contrasting colours Check for lighting on subject eg shading /lighting in the bush. Texture… foam on waves, bark, flowers. Colour…bright clothes Rule of thirds Build a frame around something small eg finger pointing to plane in sky Emotions Angles… where do you take the photo from-high, low, up, down. Fill the frame with a close up view.

6. Photos enhancing Literacy Notes News paper photos Look at events through the de bono hats Sequence photos and explain your reason for doing this. Put same pictures in a different order? Explain. I spy, Counting, Shapes, coulurs, alphabet etc Old houses, beach, scenery, local events eg balloon festival, polo game, rodeo etc Photos capturing real live stories Oral lang stories/audio books What do you think is the most important….. In this picture? Justify your decision. (Blooms) From a photo play the Why game (Building Learning Power pg 21) All questions have to begin with Why is the truck red, why is it roaring away, why are there only 3 people in it when there are more standing where it took off. Spidergram Building Learning Power pg 23 from a picture branch off with ideas and words to develop a story from. Surprising photos display photos around the school which astonish or portray something from an unexpected perspective. Use pictures that do not have clear answers. Engage pupils in dialogue about the picture… directly or by comment board. Learning Power pg25 Guided visualation Walk through the door/gate. Look around you what do you see, hear, feel… tell us what your orld was like. Learning Power pg 25 Learning Power pg 27 Odd Man out. From a set of photos select the one that doesn’t belong an dgive reasons for this. Shapes, houses, weather, birds. Scrapheap Challenge. Bring a collection of photos of objectives. What can you make from this object, spade, cloth, clothes peg, papper clip Learning Power pg 28 Capture learning shots. We are learning too… give example How to take good Photos Photo story3 Powerpoint album Scrapblogging. Smile box , Scrap Fish? Ref. Building Learning Power in Action by Guy Claxton ( Hawker Brownlow Education )

7. Using Newspaper Photos and find further photos relating to the original. I found www.stuff to have mini collections . Not sure about the copy right issue but can be viewed from the website through data projector or newspaper. Use a variety of thinking tools to discuss photos. De Bona Hats are great for oral language discussion. Remember to explore Blooms with your questioning. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ http:// www.stuff.co.nz / Look under News drop down menu, Photographs I removed my original photos here due to down loanding size. I had a collection of Australian Bushfire pictures.

8. Generating questions Where are they, Why are they there, Where could they be going, What conversation are they having?

9. Sunflowers generate a lot of interesting language for poetry and descriptive vocabulary.

10. Circle story.. Never Ending Story.. Walking down the street I met.. From an unusual photo could you generate…

11. Y chart Feels Like Looks Like Sounds Like Gumboots Abandoned Dirty Well worn Stained Waiting to be discarded. Gumboots Gunk Untidy Money Boots Odder Old Torn Stained Wonder who these boots belong too? What life story could they tell?

12. From 3 photos make a story. Take 3-6 photos of your own and develop a story. Could use a Y chart to develop the language or a silent shuffle to recreate the sequence.

14. My Dream Make up a dialogue between the 2 people. Sequence pictures, I wonder questions, story starters, deeper features.

15. Pros, Cons, Questions

16. Arrange photos in a sequence for assessment. Choose 4 photos that tell us of the life of the Monarch Butterfly

17. A selection of photos taken from flickr.com Used to generate oral discussion used thinking hats, I wonder round robin, use 3 or more photos to write a story.

18. Hh Hautapu huddle Headgear protects your head Jj Our jerseys are red, white and black Rugby Dictionary

19. Complete the story( never ending story on wiki) Abandoned many years before its time……

20. I love you to Jess. Let’s unpack the groceries? Pinky is hungry to Mum. Do you need this piece Fin? Come on Mum we are waiting. What’s for tea? Yeah, High five anyone? An alternative to Comic Life place pictures in auto shapes

21. Greedy Cat’s Adventure

22. One day greedy cat ran away and got caught by the pound.

23. They took him and put him next to dogs!

24. Greedy cat got taken to live in a home with three mean cats !

25. Greedy cat ran away from the home he was taken to ! Run away

26. Greedy cat got back home and his owners were happy to see him! I’m home

27. Other ideas for photo enrichment Solve problems with random photos.. Using these to generate new ideas, solve problems from it eg seagull in rubbish picture A round Robin could be used to generate new ideas. Ref Eric Fragenheim Planning bk pg 62 Q and A Pictures Write down as many questions as you can in 2 minites from a picture Use a Round Robin to answer the questions if you can W W W W W H could be added to the list of questions Contine with a round Robin until the children have enough data to write a story or an oral report. From random pictures ask students to place these in a story… write or retell. Rearrange the pictures to tell a different story. Add more complex pictures to the story