How photograph can serve as a visual text at Elm/midd school.benifit of photograph as a visual text.

Have you ever heard the saying, "One picture is worth one
thousand words"?  Then you have the answer to your question.  You can use photographs to
stimulate conversation in a classroom.  You can discuss many things related to
art...perspective, angle, lighting, texture, color, grouping, subject.  However, you can
also use it in a language class to begin story writing.  Consider the picture as a
snapshot in the life or lives of the subjects you have chosen.  What is happening in the
picture?  What happened before this picture?  What will happen next? What is the mood or
tone of the picture?  How do you know?  Get the students thinking about it and talking
about it and writing about it.  You won't get two stories exactly alike, and it will be
so fun to share the finished products with the class.

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Luck!