Session 1: Skills Sentencebuilding Reading Images

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Session 1 Skills ? Sentence-building ? Reading
Images
Reading Images is another of the Thinking Skills
strategies from the KS3 Strategy. There are
examples in the KS3 materials of its use in
different subject areas, making it ideal for
cross-curriculum skills-building too.Here is a
brief explanation of one Reading Images lesson in
French (the one you have on your
CD)Introduction (Fr) Rationale for the lesson
(Fr) Lobjectif de la leçon est de réviser
beaucoup de mots que nous avons appris cette
année. Par exemple les descriptions, la famille,
les opinions, et on va utiliser les images pour
réviser créativement. Poser les questions
pupil annotates the picture. Comment il
sappelle? Il est comment ? Il a les cheveux de
quelle couleur ? Cest comment sa
personnalité ? Il est sportif ? Imaginez Et sa
famille ? Il est marié ? Il a des enfants ? Où
habite-t-il? A la campagne/ en ville Dans une
maison/dans un appartement Sa maison, cest
comment ? Quest-ce quil aime faire ?
Quest-ce quil déteste ? Il a des animaux à la
maison ? Où est-ce quil travaille ? Où est-il à
ce moment-là ? Quest-ce quil a à la main ? Il
veut téléphoner avec qui ? Peut-être quest-ce
que vous imaginez ? Il a un problème? Cest
quoi ? Rationale for the lesson (En) French
select and use language from different topics
(like we have been doing in maths) one reason
is to revise for a test LiL creativity
strategy is Reading Images LiL make links
between a skill you can use in this subject and
also in Maths/Eng e.g. gather previous knowledge
and understanding and use it in a new context to
create something new in this lesson, a detailed
profile of the person in this photo. Youre going
to work at reading an image in pairs in two
different ways. One pair is going to create a
profile, using language youve learnt in previous
topics whilst the other pair with the same photo
is going to write down some questions that they
would ask in order to build up their profile of
this person. After a few minutes youll get
together and ask and answer those questions in
French. After the interview all pupils should
have annotated their own copies of the
photo. Plenary reflection on strategy as
method for generating new language, and for
revision of existing knowledge? Was it useful?
Did it generate more output that a different
revision lesson would? Was it more fun? NB
Go to the French_readingimageslesson PowerPoint
on your CD to see the plenary questions, get
further pictures to use for the lesson and to see
the student feedback from the lesson.