visualising and verbalising
 

We're working on a new lesson / instruction in the classroom that I work in. It teaches students to create visuals in their head because as they get older they are expected to read literature that doesn't have pictures and images. The hope is that as that over time this will help them become more analytical.

We show the students a picture and tell them that we as the instructors aren't familiar with the image and so they are going to help us become more familiar with it by giving us information about it. We ask them questions about the picture. At the end after they have told us as much about the picture in front of them we have to memorize and recount the details that they have told us about the picture. Then I take a good look at the picture to see if the image they described to me of it was correct.

In the second instruction we show them another picture briefly and this time take it away. And they have to try to remember what was in the picture and tell us what they thought they remembered. Again we ask them questions. At the end we all look at the picture to see if they got the details right.

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It would be a better idea to have you describe the picture to them and they draw it or have them look at it and then try to recreate it as best they can. This would also tell you more about how they think depending on what details they remember as opposed to just describing it.

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I'm a teachers aide but I've been asked to assist with this.