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 Grade 6 ELA Activities
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words
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What do pictures tell us about characters? How do visual cues help
us create meaning? You can help your child learn to “read”
visual images by looking closely at photographs and other images and
helping her find and consider important details.
This activity will help your child notice how different elements
of photographic or artistic images can help us draw conclusions about
the picture. The goal of the activity is to pull together all the
information she can in order to title a particular scene, portrait,
or photograph.
Here's what you need:
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| Family photo albums or art books with portraits of people |
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| Paper |
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| Pen or pencil |
Here's what you do:
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Encourage your child to list the people, places, things, and ideas
in each picture on a piece of paper. To help your child be specific,
ask such questions as:
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| What can we tell about the weather in this image? |
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| What might have been the reason for taking this photograph? |
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| Which characters seem more important in this image? |
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| What story does the image tell? |
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| What details stand out? |
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| What can we tell about the people from the expressions on
their faces? |
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| What does the clothing worn suggest about each person in
the image? |
As you compile details about the image, help your child devise
a title or caption that captures the main idea, feeling, or circumstance
of the image.
Keep going...
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A good title acts as an effective short summary, designed to catch
the viewer’s attention and reveal what the image is about.
It’s important that the title not be too general, too specific,
incomplete, or inaccurate. Picking a good title is similar to finding
the main idea in a story or a newspaper article.
An added challenge is to create a game for someone else to play:
after titling five or six images, the new participant will have to
match the titles to the images.
Grade 6 ELA Activities
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