At my school, in the junior division, we are presently focusing on inferencing in our shared reading. To do this we are showing students a single picture from a sequence of pictures from which they will make their inferences. As teachers we have decided on a common Pre and Post picture to use with our classes, but gave ourselves the flexibility to use pictures of our choice in the middle teaching weeks.
Keethai's post, and David's website, made me think that rather than finding pictures myself I could give students a digital camera and they could take the picture that we would use (or one which another class could use). Neat idea.
Keethai, in a follow up post asked if our school was an OFIP school. We are not, but we got our idea from using Strategies That Work by Harvey, our DRA results and our board has just this year purchased the Literacy in Action program which includes lots of great visuals and opportunities to work on reading strategies through images. The digital camera idea to generate new images is just a bonus.
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