I really enjoyed reading these two articles about wordless text. I think that using wordless text in the classroom is a great idea and one that I had never really thought of. I have in the past tried to steer clear of wordless text because you could not do anything because there were not any words. After reading these articles I have really heard some examples of ways to use this in my classroom. I think this would fit right in for kindergarten. They love to come up with their own stories when they look at books we have read together since some of them are to hard for them to read so I know they would love to make their own books.
I also agree with the articles that it would really help in the upper grades. Students that are older would probably really like that they could express their creative side and put the stories into their own words. I am really interested to see how this will work in my classroom although I worry about how long it would take with kindergarten. Some of my students have a hard time writing a sentence. I think however that they could do it with enough guidance.
I hope you are clear on how this might work in a primary classroom; the teacher is the scribe who writes down what the children are saying. The children are not writing, the teacher is. There couldn’t be a more perfect supportive shared writing idea for Kinders…
Comment by fryeem — April 3, 2008 @ 9:18 p |