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Literacy Links -January 2016
What is a picture walk all about?
What is a picture walk?
A picture walk is a shared activity between an adult reader and the child before reading an unfamiliar story to preview the pictures and vocabulary the child will encounter within the text.
Want to get an idea of how to do a picture walk? Check out the video below.
Why do a picture walk?
“Walking through the storybook pictures” with an adult prepares a child for reading the story and teaches the use of pictures as a beginning reading strategy. The adult reading with the child turns the pages and gives a brief introduction to the characters in the story, where the story is taking place, and what might happen in the story.
Picture walks set the purpose for reading and help to engage the child in the story. Children draw on their own experiences and activate prior knowledge from the pictures. The child is able to make predictions about what might happen in the story and how the story might end which will help improve their comprehension of the story. Picture walks also provide an opportunity to introduce new vocabulary to a child so the story can be read more fluently.
What comes next?
As students become more fluent readers, they develop new reading habits for preparing for reading a book such as reading the back cover, checking out the table of contents, and previewing a few pages.
Check out the video below for an example of how to do a picture walk.
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