PHOTO WRITING PROMPTS: Close Reading and Writing with Photos (BUNDLE)
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Engage your middle school students in close reading skills, critical thinking, and meaningful writing! Analyzing and writing about photos helps students become fluent, organized, confident, and skilled thinkers and writers – literacy skills they will transfer to their reading. Best of all, students love responding to photo writing prompts!
The photos in this collection represent a diverse variety of populations, cultures, ethnicities, demographics, interests, and holiday celebrations. Set 2 photos are winter-themed.
Created for grades 5-8, this resource is appropriate for:
- bell ringers
- warm-ups
- whole class or small group activity
- individual literacy skills practice
- literacy station
- substitute folders
- formative assessments
LITERACY SKILLS
Responding to photo writing prompts helps students:
- Closely observe and describe details
- Make inferences
- Activate prior knowledge
- Make personal connections
- Think critically
- Draw conclusions
- Prepare for meaningful discussions
- Increase background knowledge
- Broaden their worldview
- Reinforce vocabulary
- Increase engagement in Think-Pair-Share activities
- Summarize
- Draft, edit, revise, and proof writing
THIS 250-PAGE PHOTO OF THE DAY WRITING PROMPT RESOURCE INCLUDES:
- 48 high-resolution photos to display onto a SmartBoard, White Board, or Document Projector
- 48 two-sided Photo Analysis Worksheets
- 48 two-sided Photo Analysis Worksheets organized into Monday-Friday responses
- 24 Task Cards with photo analysis-specific writing prompts
- 2 Grading Rubrics (10-point scale and 4-point scale)
- Tips and ideas for integrating photo analysis writing prompts into your English Language Arts curriculum
- Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Common Core Standards, and Terms of Use
DIFFERENTIATION AND RESEARCH-BASED PEDAGOGY
Analyzing and writing about photos allows students to:
- play with ideas, thoughts, and words
- take literary risks
- practice inferring, critical thinking, connecting, and comparing and contrasting
- integrate writing in all disciplines
- develop communication skills
- express their ideas
- recognize and celebrate a variety of cultures, ethnicities, interests, settings, demographics, and holiday celebrations
All the photos in this resource were taken either by me or by Donna of Worth a Thousand Words, or were purchased for use in commercial products.
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