Using Picture Cues: Word Recognition: Teaching with WiggleWorks®: Tools for Individualizing Curriculum: Examples & Illustrations: Universal Design for Learning: CAST

In this activity, students learn to use pictures to help them read text in the WiggleWorks book, Kites.

Procedure

Record Teacher Messages in the Read version of Kites that direct students through the activity. (See below for sample Teacher Messages.)

Read the book with a group of students in Read Aloud. Have students look at each picture carefully. Point to the kite on each page and ask students to predict the color word. Click on the word and have the computer read it to confirm their prediction.

Have students read the story together in small groups or in pairs at the computer. Remind students to listen to any teacher messages you may have recorded when they see the speech bubble icon on the bottom of the screen. Ask students to look at the kites, find the color words, click to hear them read, and copy them into the My Words list. At the end of the book, have them print a copy of the My Words list in flash card format for every group member. Have students cut their grids into word cards that they can color and illustrate with objects whose color matches the word.

Sample Teacher Messages

"On each screen, look at the kite. What color is it? Find that color word on the page and add it to your My Words list." (Record a similar message on other pages to focus students on the activity.)

"This picture has the colors of the rainbow which also happen to be the colors of the kites in this story. Do you have all those color words in your My Words list? If not, go back through the story and add them to your My Words list. Have fun!"

"Now that you've finished the story and you've collected all the color words, print them out in flash card format. Cut them up into flash cards and color them to match the words."

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