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Free photos for education. The Secret Door - Step Through To The Unknown… PEN00018. The Art Of Storytelling » Tell A Story. Get inspired by featured artwork from the Delaware Art Museum and write a story through the interactive Tell a Story activity. Look through the images below for a brief introduction on how this activity works, or click on the link below to begin telling your story. Launch the Tell a Story Activity 1) Choose an inspirational work of art First, select a work of art as the inspiration for your story. 2) Tell your story Next, you'll write a story to accompany the artwork. 3) Share your story Once finished, you have the option to send your creation to family and friends, and submit it to the Delaware Art Museum to be included in an online gallery of stories.

50 Story Starters. Writing prompts. Picture to story. Preparation Prepare a set of pictures that are likely to stimulate the interest and imagination of your students.

Picture to story

Procedure Show the picture to the students and have them work in groups to prepare some questions about the photo. Below is an attachment with an example photo. Here are some example questions the students may ask. Who is the man? Who is he talking to? How does he feel? When the students are working together monitor and help with the question forming. Extension Give each pair of students a different picture. By Derek Spafford Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. Ten Thoughts on Visual Prompts. To check out the prompts sorted by subject and writing type, please visit the Visual Writing Prompts.

Ten Thoughts on Visual Prompts

If you are interested in creating your own prompts, here are a few things I've learned about photo prompts: Idea #1 Photo prompts don't have to be tied down to language arts. I have asked students to observe a picture of a natural phenomenon and ask inquiry questions. I have given students a context and asked them to develop math questions (who knew a child would wonder how much it would cost to fill up a pyramid with Jell-O?)

The following was a very strange math prompt that got students thinking about days, months, years, ratios, etc. Idea #2 Photo prompts allow for a bridge between the concrete and the abstract. Idea #3 The most successful prompts are thought-provoking in both the visual and the questioning. Idea #4: Sometimes the best photo prompts are driven by the picture. Visual Writing Prompts. Not even sure this one is a great idea.

Visual Writing Prompts

Visual_Story_Prompts.pptx. Images as Writing Prompts. Steve Muir: Using images. The blog post below is a complete lesson plan based around the image 'Marry me'.

Steve Muir: Using images

It is designed to be used with teenage and adult learners who have a CEF level B1 and above. Instructions for teachers: Part 1: Introducing the topic and speaking practice Display the image Marry me - yes (You can download the image, but please be aware that some rights are reserved)Put students in groups of three and tell students that they have two minutes to describe the photo. If they don’t know a word, tell them to note it down in their own language and ask at the end.Stop them after two minutes and answer vocabulary questions. Part 2: Reading and making predictions Tell students that they’re going to see some marriage-related facts and figures and display the infographic below.Ask students to match the figures in the box at the top that says 'Happily ever after' with the facts below. Infographic by Steve Muir Answers Part 3: vocabulary focus Part 4: Extension and further speaking practice.