TIME Magazines - Teaching with Pictures

 All year long I would get the TIME magazines for adults when we received our TIME FOR KIDS bundles.  I would skim through them quickly and then put them in my teacher bin. Before I knew it, I had quite a few TIME magazines cluttering my bin. From there, I would take them home and stash them in hopes that I could eventually read them. When summer started, I came up with the idea to use the pictures within them to help with instruction.

As I skimmed through the articles, I was able to cut out appropriate pictures and catch up on some of the reading :) I glued each picture to an index card and numbered them. I bought a Dollar Tree photo album and put each picture into a sleeve. I feel like there is so much I can do with this. I can teach skills like inferencing or cause and effect. Since we are working on Guided Reading and creating centers this summer - my plan is to use it as a Writing Center. Students can take out one of the numbered cards from the album and write something similar to this for each picture: 

I see...

I know...

I wonder...

I infer...

Opinion writing topic for this picture...

Persuasive writing topic for this picture...

Informational writing topic for this picture...

Narrative writing topic for this picture...

(I was inspired by another Teacher Blog which I can not remember or find now - to list different topics that could be generated from a picture for different writing genres.) 

After this, students can choose to write about the picture using the writing topic of their choice (students love choice :] ).

  

This picture was taken before 

I put the pictures on numbered 

index cards, but you get the idea.