Diane describes some follow up activities that can come from Listen and Draw:
As mentioned, many kinds of activities can easily be built off of Listen and Draw. The basic idea is to describe a scene that all students sketch as it is slowly being described. Plenty of repetition is easily possible. It’s better to story-ask the details so the students have more ownership.
Diane shares some of the follow-up activities from Listen and Draw:
“Here are just some of the activities I have done that originated when doing Listen and Draw with my students:
– teacher tell details and have students point out that feature in their sketch;
– brief pair work: students describe their finished sketches to another student;
– volunteers retell the description to the whole class while pointing out features of their sketches;
– use particularly entertaining to use Look & Discuss with the next day (asking questions about the picture and discussing – they love seeing these);
– teacher types a description and the class reads it together;
– teacher types a parallel storyline and compares and constrasts it to their pictures;
– teacher or students write up true/false statements, read them together or silently, and have students write their answers;
– students type or hand-write a description of another student’s picture the next day.