These are my slides for my presentation, "Say Cheese! Using Pictures to Teach Reading." I am presenting this session in February 2015 at the Southern California Kindergarten Conference. It also coordinates with my product, Describing and Inferring Key Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely" available at www.hellojenjones.com

1. Using
Pictures
To Teach
Reading by Jen Jones, Hello Literacy^

2. Pictures
*are*
Informational text
RIT.7 “Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and
formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.”

3. Describing & Inferring Pictures
is most like
Reading ReaL Life…

6. *and* research-based

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12. Pictures = Brain-based
cat

15. Making Inferences with…
Picture of
the Day

16. What I
infer
(facts) (opinions)
What I
observe

18. observing details
describing details
AnaLyzing details
Making inferences
about the details

20. …assemble for meaning.

21. …interpret for meaning.

23. appropriate for middle and high school.
NASA Picture of the Day
National Geographic Picture of the Day
Kodak Picture of the Day
FWA Photo of the Day
Zuma Picture of the Day
Earth Science Picture of the Day
Optics Picture of the Day
Radiology Picture of the Day
Historical Picture of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/helloliteracypictureoftheday

25. After reading the
text & illustration
on page 1. . .

26. After reading the text and illustration on
page 1 of The Lotus Seed, students were
better able to answer the following
questions using evidence from the
illustration.
Q:Who is telling the story? (RL.6-Point of View)
A: The little girl because the text says “my grandmother” and the picture it shows a little girl
watching him under the tree.
Q:Where does the story take place? (RL.2-Setting)
A: We infer it takes place in Asia because the text uses words like “emperor, dragon & throne”
and the picture shows an Asian style gown and helmet and the building is like the type they have
in Asia.”
Q:What is the mood of the story so far? And how do you know? (RL.4-Tone & Symbolism)
A: We infer the mood so far is sad and unhappy because the text uses the words “cry and lost”
and the picture shows dark gray clouds and the emperor is holding his head in his hands.
Q:When the author says “ he lost his golden dragon throne.” What does lost really mean? (RL.4-
Figurative Language)
A: We infer that lost means his throne is gone…somebody stole it. [Then we had a vocabulary
lesson about the figurative kind of lost.]

27. www.hellojenjones.com

28. Thank You!
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