Using Photos for Oral and Written Language PowerPoint Google Slides Printables

This Using Photos for Oral and Written Language uses pictures containing familiar objects, actions and scenes to draw out words from student’s listening and speaking vocabularies. This resource will help students add words to their reading vocabulary, as well as their writing vocabulary.

This strategy is highly effective with students who are English Language Learners or that are struggling readers and writers.

This resource uses a modified PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model). Students label the picture, write adjectives and verbs about the picture. Then a sentence (or more than one sentence) is written using those words. You could do one or more pictures each week.

This resource contains a PowerPoint version, pdf and Google Slides. There are 50 whole page pictures in color that are designed to be displayed on your projector or can be used on a virtual platform like Zoom or Google Meet. The teacher elicits discussion with observations and inferences using the “I see, I think, I wonder” sentence stems. The student pages (see pages 5-55 in this packet) are designed for students to follow along with the teacher labeling, word writing and sentence writing.

I have also included printable graphic organizers and sentence stems to use with the photos.