Today as a group, we did a PWIM activity on the Smartboard in the computer lab.
PWIM strategy (Picture Word Inductive Method) (en français - MIMI - Méthode Induction Mots Images)
The strategy is used to promote reading, writing, labelling, understanding how a picture tells a story, oral language, sounding out initial sounds in words, and much more. We have used this strategy a couple of times now as a group, as we did today.
1) Look at the picture (could be ANY photograph), talk about what you can see in the photo
2) Shake out the words: Using the words and prompting children to think of the initial sounds of the labelling words.
3) Move onto matching, sorting and classifying the words, as word cards, with the photo. Children can play a matching game to pair the words with the objects in a printed version of the photograph, they can sort the words depending on length, meaning, initial letters and so on.
Today we focused on a picture of us playing during a free exploration time. We did the first two steps and before continuing onto the third step we asked another prompting question. "How are you playing in this photograph?"
-Nicely
-Gently
-Sharing
-Together
-Quietly
We also talked about any challenges or problems in the photo that we noticed and what strategies we could use to fix these problems. The children were confident in using all the social responsibility and self-regulation strategies we have been practising and talking about it. This was wonderful to see!!!! Our hard work is paying off!
Some of our suggestions/strategies to fix problems: (in their words)
-talk it out
-use an i-message
-seek help
-walk away
-move to a quieter spot
-use headphones (for quiet)
-ask to play
-self-regulation to calm down
I have now printed out our photograph, and typed up the words (objects&actions). We will use these for sorting and matching and to prompt further discussions. Lots of the labelling started with friends' names and objects (even in French!) and then moved into actions and strategies.
This is activity that could be done with any photograph, at any time, in English or in French. You can do it at home, even in the form of the I-spy game...and work on initial sounds in words that you see.
For example:
"I spy something that starts with the letter 'h'."
"What sound does 'H' make?"
"Let's say it together!"
"Now what objects or people do we see that start with that sound?"
Have fun!
PWIM strategy (Picture Word Inductive Method) (en français - MIMI - Méthode Induction Mots Images)
The strategy is used to promote reading, writing, labelling, understanding how a picture tells a story, oral language, sounding out initial sounds in words, and much more. We have used this strategy a couple of times now as a group, as we did today.
1) Look at the picture (could be ANY photograph), talk about what you can see in the photo
2) Shake out the words: Using the words and prompting children to think of the initial sounds of the labelling words.
3) Move onto matching, sorting and classifying the words, as word cards, with the photo. Children can play a matching game to pair the words with the objects in a printed version of the photograph, they can sort the words depending on length, meaning, initial letters and so on.
Today we focused on a picture of us playing during a free exploration time. We did the first two steps and before continuing onto the third step we asked another prompting question. "How are you playing in this photograph?"
-Nicely
-Gently
-Sharing
-Together
-Quietly
We also talked about any challenges or problems in the photo that we noticed and what strategies we could use to fix these problems. The children were confident in using all the social responsibility and self-regulation strategies we have been practising and talking about it. This was wonderful to see!!!! Our hard work is paying off!
Some of our suggestions/strategies to fix problems: (in their words)
-talk it out
-use an i-message
-seek help
-walk away
-move to a quieter spot
-use headphones (for quiet)
-ask to play
-self-regulation to calm down
I have now printed out our photograph, and typed up the words (objects&actions). We will use these for sorting and matching and to prompt further discussions. Lots of the labelling started with friends' names and objects (even in French!) and then moved into actions and strategies.
This is activity that could be done with any photograph, at any time, in English or in French. You can do it at home, even in the form of the I-spy game...and work on initial sounds in words that you see.
For example:
"I spy something that starts with the letter 'h'."
"What sound does 'H' make?"
"Let's say it together!"
"Now what objects or people do we see that start with that sound?"
Have fun!