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Picture dications are great for providing an overview of a topic so
that students have some hooks on which they can hang the new
knowledge that they might encounter during the study.
Students divide a page into a grid according to the text/story.
Teacher reads each sentence out twice. Students LISTEN carefully
and draw a picture (stick figures are fine) in the
appropriate grid square to represent that sentence.
It can be very useful, especially for students who have little or no
prior knowledge of the topic, to have posters and images up around
the room that they can refer to for ideas. Some of us find it very
challenging to think of images let alone draw them. It is important
to stress that the drawings do NOT have to be works of art - and
the occasional word or number is OK. When the dictation has been
completed students get into pairs and tell each other about
culture using their drawings as stimulus material.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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