Using+Visuals

By: Elizabeth Del Real
 * [[image:fall11ellapu/seasons.jpg width="365" height="173" align="left"]]Using Visuals **

that focuses on content comprehension and English is acquired through this process. It provides language support through visual images. To Make content comprehensible is to provide pictures, drawings, and visuals that will support academic vocabulary development.
 * Using Visuals **is a S.D.A.I.E. strategy

The visual clues provide literally a visual way to describe key words and concepts. Teachers may find pictures, models, manipulative, gestures and body language, realia (the real objects), or demonstrations to represent the concept. The idea is to simply make abstract concepts concrete. Visual clues should be used in all aspects of the lessons including lectures and even assessment.
 * What are visual clues? **

The visuals are used through the process known as Visual scaffolding. Visual scaffolding is an approach in which language used in instruction is made more understandable by the display of drawings or photographs that allow students to hear English words and connect them to the visual images being displayed. To use this strategy, the teacher builds a file of visuals, photographs, or drawings that can be easily accessed for teaching.
 * How are the visuals used in the classroom instruction? **

Internet images, Photos, Illustrations from big books, videos **Resources**: Google images. National Geographic, Flickr.com, Enchanted Learning.com If you are a visual learner, use images, pictures, color and other visual media to help you learn. Incorporate much imagery into your visualizations. You may find that visualization comes easily to you. This also means that you may have to make your visualizations stand out more. This makes sure new material is obvious among all the other visual images you have floating around inside your head. ' Students at all levels of porficienvy will benefit from the use of pictures or visuals, but students at the lower proficiency levels will most benefit from having a visual representation of unknown vocabulary words. media type="youtube" key="OEz2PI03-ms" height="315" width="420"
 * Steps in Planning: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Identify vocabulary- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This can be scaffold with visual images, such as drawings or photographs.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Collect visuals- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Find or make photos or line drawings that can be used to visually support the vocabulary needed for the students to understand the lesson.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reproduce and organize visuals- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reproduce the visuals on transparency film and organize them so that they can easily use during teaching. Sequential order works well for specific lesson.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Engage the students- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Encourage the students to use the transparency picture file in their presentations or as a way of asking and answering questions.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Build the file- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Continue to build your file on an ongoing basis.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Benefits for the Visual Learner **