Miss can I draw? This is a frequently asked question among both Emergent Multilingual students and monolingual students. With the high pressure of standardized testing, the lack of hours in the day, and a strict curriculum to follow it can be hard to make time for drawing. Drawing however, can be used as an excellent pre-writing activity. Drawing allows students to add details that they may not easy put down in writing. Drawing can help students create a sequence of events that they might struggle to produce when writing. Having the visual representation to look at can improve students' writing by allowing students to add greater details, giving students a visual support, giving students ownership of their creative process, and increasing word count. Here are some links on using drawing as a pre-writing tool.
Here is an example of the notes and illustrations my students did while I did a read-aloud and discussion using El Cucuy! by Joe Hayes (the bottom image is my example from my Writers' Notebook). Tomorrow we will be reading El Cucuy from
Heart Shaped Cookies by Daivd Rice and using a venn diagram to compare and contrast the 2 stories.
6th grade students' illustrations and book notes about El Cucuy. I love that he added dialogue (Helpos = Help us)
Illustrations can be a pre-writing tool and also as a way for students to show their understanding of a text.
Link to: Want to Improve your Kids' Writing? Let them Draw.
http://splash.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2167489/want-to-improve-your-kids-writing-let-them-draw
Link to: The Influence of Drawing on Third Graders' Writing Performance
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol38/iss1/2/
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