Strategy #11 Nonlinguistic Representations

Snapshot Sentences
Purpose: To highlight descriptive sentences that offer sensory detail and helps the reader visualize ideas and thoughts of the author. Basics: Time Allotted Materials

25 minutes Selected reading, graphic organizer, crayons/markers

Room Arrangement Desk, rows, individual work

Process Directions: 1. Assign reading selection and post it on the front board. 2. While students are reading ask them to pay specific attention to descriptive details that allow them to visualize what the author is saying. 3. After reading the selection, have students collect snapshot sentences. 4. Student will then analyze the sentences for sensory details and figurative language such as similes and metaphors. 5. Students will then pick one or two sentences to draw a snapshot of what that sentence would look like to them. When/Examples: I will utilize this strategy during social studies lesson to evoke imagination within my students. I will use this activity to point out how authors try to make pictures with their words and explain how students should begin writing their own stories attempting to evoke the senses. Source: Snapshot sentences. Instructional strategies for the journey north teacher. Retrieved April 2013. Retrieved from http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/InstrucStrat30.html.