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 Grade 6 ELA Activities
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words
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What do pictures tell us about characters? How do visual cues help us create meaning? You
can help your child learn to “read” visual images by looking closely at photographs
and other images and helping her find and consider important details.
This activity will help your child notice how different elements of photographic or artistic
images can help us draw conclusions about the picture. The goal of the activity is to pull
together all the information she can in order to title a particular scene, portrait, or photograph.
Here's what you need:
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| Family photo albums or art books with portraits of people |
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| Paper |
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| Pen or pencil |
Here's what you do:
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Encourage your child to list the people, places, things, and ideas in each picture on a
piece of paper. To help your child be specific, ask such questions as:
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| What can we tell about the weather in this image? |
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| What might have been the reason for taking this photograph? |
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| Which characters seem more important in this image? |
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| What story does the image tell? |
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| What details stand out? |
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| What can we tell about the people from the expressions on their faces? |
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| What does the clothing worn suggest about each person in the image? |
As you compile details about the image, help your child devise a title or caption that
captures the main idea, feeling, or circumstance of the image.
Keep going...
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A good title acts as an effective short summary, designed to catch the viewer’s
attention and reveal what the image is about. It’s important that the title not be
too general, too specific, incomplete, or inaccurate. Picking a good title is similar to finding
the main idea in a story or a newspaper article.
An added challenge is to create a game for someone else to play: after titling five or
six images, the new participant will have to match the titles to the images.
Grade 6 ELA Activities
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