Sketch-to-Stretch
The sketch-to-stretch activity is a reading strategy that involves students taking a break from their reading and then sketching what they have just read. This link print literacy with visual literacy.
Steps:
1. Students read an assigned text/passage (or listen to a text).
2. Students put down their reading and take a break by physically stretching.
3. Students make a sketch (drawing, symbols, graphs) about what they just read, highlighting the important parts. (Impose a time limit so students are focused on the content, not the artistry of the sketch.)
4. Students form into small groups and share their sketches.
5. Other group members make interpretations about the sketches.
6. After group members have commented, the original sketcher can respond and make comments about what he/she drew and why.
Possible Curricular Outcomes:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.2 Articulate, represent, and explain personal viewpoints clearly.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral literary, and media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to celebrate and build community.
5.1 Develop and Celebrate Community
5.1.1 Express personal reactions to a variety of experiences and texts and compare them with the reactions of others.
Steps:
1. Students read an assigned text/passage (or listen to a text).
2. Students put down their reading and take a break by physically stretching.
3. Students make a sketch (drawing, symbols, graphs) about what they just read, highlighting the important parts. (Impose a time limit so students are focused on the content, not the artistry of the sketch.)
4. Students form into small groups and share their sketches.
5. Other group members make interpretations about the sketches.
6. After group members have commented, the original sketcher can respond and make comments about what he/she drew and why.
Possible Curricular Outcomes:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.2 Articulate, represent, and explain personal viewpoints clearly.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral literary, and media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to celebrate and build community.
5.1 Develop and Celebrate Community
5.1.1 Express personal reactions to a variety of experiences and texts and compare them with the reactions of others.
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