Tina just sent me a link to a series of videos she took this week in her Spanish One class.
For those of us working with One Word Images, this series of videos shows a sequence of instruction that leads the class from the image-creation process through the next day’s review of the artists’ work, into writing a class-created text, and then using the text to launch into some reading options – here, choral translation into L1 and reading from the back of the room.
I have found in coaching and working with teachers that it is very useful to see the work demonstrated. As such, this video can be of value to anyone in our group who is in anyway invested in what I consider to be the future of our work using comprehensible input. Tina has been making videos constantly this year to help demonstrate techniques to make students and their ideas the centerpiece of our instruction, not word lists and pre-determined language structures.
This sequence is a good example of how images can be used with great results, engaging kids in our programs and driving language gains in oral and written comprehension.
To see any of my own videos using the Invisibles, the reader is invited to follow these links:
Kandy the Korn, first in the series of eight
Naruto, first in a series of seven
Pringles Man, first in a series of five