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ICT Applications in Literacy - Digital images

  • Photo prompts
    Description:
    Take photographs and use them to prompt children's recount of events or experiences, such as an educational trip or a visit to school
    Resources:
    - Digital camera connected directly to television set or digital photographs downloaded to a computer.
  • Phonics photos
    Description:
    Using a digital camera, children collect images of familiar objects which share the same initial phoneme.
    Resources:
    - Digital camera.
    - Present pictures on a television set or computer.
  • Photo sequence
    Description:
    Record processes, such as investigations in science, photographically. Shuffle the order of the photographs and use re-sequencing activities to support oral recounts and explanations.
    Resources:
    - Digital photographs downloaded to a computer and displayed using an application which allows images to be sequenced, for example: an interactive whiteboard application.
  • Photo storyboard
    Description:
    Plan for writing by using digital photographs to bridge between improvised narratives and narrative writing. Pupils improvise a narrative using drama techniques or small-world figures and toys. Take a limited number of still photographs to depict the key episodes of the narrative. Use the photographs as a storyboard plan. Construct the narrative by writing a chapter, a paragraph, sentence or label to accompany each photograph. Develop into narrative format.
    Resources:
    - Digital camera
    - Word processor or desktop publisher.
  • Cartoon storyboard
    Description:
    Plan for writing by using digital photographs to bridge between improvised narratives and comic book writing. Pupils improvise a narrative using drama techniques or small-world figures and toys. Take still photographs to depict the narrative. Import the photographs into a word processor and lay out in sequence. Add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and captions to reconstruct the narrative. Example:
    - Y4 character with dilemma, pupils improvise using role-play techniques and then construct a storyboard in the style of a magazine photo story.
    Resources:
    - Digital camera
    - Word processor or desktop publisher