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Telling Stories With Photo Essays

A Guide for PreK-5 Teachers

Give children new ways to express their thoughts and ideas!

This exciting resource offers teachers strategies for helping children create photo essays as a way to communicate ideas, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in an authentic and personal way. The book offers practical applications and examples that illustrate how photo essays can be used:

  • To help boost the confidence of struggling writers, including English language learners and children with special needs
  • As an alternate assessment to engage challenged students
  • To meet state and national standards
  • As part of portfolios to record what children have learned

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  • Grade Level: PreK-5
  • ISBN: 9781412964593
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 152
  • Publication date: October 01, 2009
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Description

"The authors offer a wealth of ways to engage children in expressing meaning and documenting experiences through photographs. They provide all the practical help teachers need to use this exciting medium to expand children's ways of perceiving, representing, and thinking about their world."
—Carol Copple, Director of Publications and Initiatives in Educational Practice
National Association for the Education of Young Children

Give children new ways to express their thoughts and ideas!

When children create photo essays, they are encouraged to share their thoughts in an authentic and personal way. This creative new resource offers teachers ready-to-use tools and strategies for involving children in creating photo essays as a way to communicate ideas, experiences, and emotions.

Teachers will discover how to inspire children to capture the aesthetics of their environment, document historical events and personal stories, keep a record of what they learn, and become advocates for causes as they explore responsible citizenship. The book offers ideas and examples that illustrate how photo essays can be used:

  • As part of portfolios to record what children have learned
  • To help boost the confidence of struggling writers, including English language learners and children with special needs
  • As an alternate assessment format to engage challenged students
  • To meet state and national standards

Photo essay activities are ideal for any teacher looking for new ways to nurture student expression, excitement, and creativity in the classroom.


Key features

  • Includes sample photo essays covering a variety of topics, including family histories and field trips/nature walks
  • Froma teacher-educator who has hands-on experience with children and shares real examples with teachers
  • Presentsuses of technology for the early childhood classroom
  • Is built on research into how children best learn
  • Includes 40 photographs of various types of photo essays

Author(s)

Susan Conklin Thompson photo

Susan Conklin Thompson
Susan Conklin Thompson is a professor at the University of Northern Colorado, where she coordinates the early childhood program and teaches early childhood and elementary education courses. Thompson has authored numerous articles, two multicultural books for children, and eight books for teachers, including Children as Illustrators: Making Meaning through Art and Language (National Association for the Education of Young Children). She has been the recipient of several university awards for teaching excellence and outstanding research and scholarship and in 2001 was awarded the Early Childhood Professional of the Year Award by the Wyoming Early Childhood Association.
Kayenta Williams photo

Kayenta Williams
Kayenta Williams holds an MFA in creative writing and has worked extensively with English language learners as an elementary ELL teacher. She has authored both fiction and nonfiction work, including an article in Social Studies and the Young Learner entitled “Photo Essays: Using Photography to Tell a Story”, which she co-authored with Susan Conklin Thompson.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

1. Photo Essays and Children

Photography and Expression

Children as Photographers

2. Developing a Photo Essay

Photo Essays

Captions and Photographs Working Together for Voice

Thinking In-Depth About Captions

Timelines

Teachers and Photo Essays

Presentation Formats for Photo Essays

Children Presenting Photo Essays

3. Photographs Tell a Story in History

Creating a Historical Photo Essay: The Freedom Trail

Ideas for Historical Photo Essays

4. Personal History Photo Essays

Sample Personal History Photo Essay

Ideas for Personal History Photo Essays

5. Nature Experience Photo Essays

Sample Nature Photo Essay

Ideas for Nature Photo Essays

6. Field Trip Photo Essays

Sample Field Trip Photo Essay

Ideas for Field Trip Photo Essays

7. Overcoming Traumatic Events

Sample Photo Essay of a Tornado

Ideas for Photo Essays Helping Children Deal With Traumatic Events

8. Career Photo Essays

Sample Career Photo Essay

Ideas for Career Photo Essays

9. Integrating Curriculum Photo Essays

Sample Photo Essay of an Integrated Math Activity

Ideas for Integrated Photo Essays

10. Advocacy Photo Essays

Sample Advocacy Photo Essay on Endangered Animals

Ideas for Advocacy Photo Essays

11. Using Photographs to Interpret the Past; Contributing Author Dr. Gary Fertig

Using Photographs to Evaluate the Historical Significance of Change

Using Photographs to Identify Causes and Effects

Using Photographs to Evoke Empathy

Using Photographs to Initiate Historical Inquiry

Summary and Conclusions

12. Assessment and Rubrics

Resource: Standards Alignment

Bibliography of Suggested Children’s Photo Essay Books

References

Index

Reviews

Quote by Karen Thomes, Teacher, Indian Island School, ME: "A beneficial reference to working with photo essays with young children.”
"A beneficial reference to working with photo essays with young children.”
Karen Thomes, Teacher
Indian Island School, ME
Quote by David W. Romtvedt, Professor, University of Wyoming: “This book demonstrates the power of the photo essay to help children grow intellectually and emotionally. It includes ideas for a wide array of projects along with plenty of examples of projects students have done in different schools and community settings. The fantastic thing about the book is the commitment to teaching that serves every child—a commitment that arises from a vision of democratic learning.”
“This book demonstrates the power of the photo essay to help children grow intellectually and emotionally. It includes ideas for a wide array of projects along with plenty of examples of projects students have done in different schools and community settings. The fantastic thing about the book is the commitment to teaching that serves every child—a commitment that arises from a vision of democratic learning.”
David W. Romtvedt, Professor
University of Wyoming
Quote by Michael Opitz, Professor of Reading, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley: "Thompson shows as much as tells what photo essays are and how to use them to enhance and extend children’s understanding of their world. Educators will want this book because of the curricular integration, differentiation, and instruction centered on helping children use all components of literacy, including visual representation.”
"Thompson shows as much as tells what photo essays are and how to use them to enhance and extend children’s understanding of their world. Educators will want this book because of the curricular integration, differentiation, and instruction centered on helping children use all components of literacy, including visual representation.”
Michael Opitz, Professor of Reading
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Quote by Rebecca S. Compton, Professor of Elementary Education, East Central University: “I really like this book, and I’m eager to use it as a supplement for various methods courses in elementary education and early childhood. I would also use it in a special workshop or seminar class.”
“I really like this book, and I’m eager to use it as a supplement for various methods courses in elementary education and early childhood. I would also use it in a special workshop or seminar class.”
Rebecca S. Compton, Professor of Elementary Education
East Central University
Quote by Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author of Sundays in America: "Countless students will be forever changed by this fascinating text and its message that the immense power of images enables anyone to say, 'This is where I am, this is what I see. Look at my world through my eyes.'"
"Countless students will be forever changed by this fascinating text and its message that the immense power of images enables anyone to say, 'This is where I am, this is what I see. Look at my world through my eyes.'"
Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author of Sundays in America
Quote by Carol Copple, Director of Publications and Initiatives in Educational Practice, National Association for the Education of Young Children: "The authors offer a wealth of ways to engage children in expressing meaning and documenting experiences through photographs. They provide all the practical help teachers need to use this exciting medium to expand children’s ways of perceiving, representing, and thinking about their world."
"The authors offer a wealth of ways to engage children in expressing meaning and documenting experiences through photographs. They provide all the practical help teachers need to use this exciting medium to expand children’s ways of perceiving, representing, and thinking about their world."
Carol Copple, Director of Publications and Initiatives in Educational Practice
National Association for the Education of Young Children

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Price: $28.95
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