Inference Lesson: Stories Told in Pictures

I wrote a post the other day about turning words into pictures and a picture being worth 1,000 words.

This lead to me to find stories that are told using only pictures. 

This could be a great inference lesson.

The first "Story" I found was:

Love Story in 22 Pictures

My little mentee brought this one to my attention:

The Whale Hunt

I saw this on Pinterest the other day and thought it was sweet also:

Baby Will's Birthy Story

I thought I could show these to my students and have them create captions for the pictures inferring what is occurring in the photos and then write a story based only on the photos and their inferences. 

But wait there's more!

I thought that after doing this assignment, perhaps I could have kids create a photo story of their own. I could split them into groups and they could plan, storyboard, and direct photo shoots of their own devising. 

I could limit the stories to a certain number of pictures and have them printed at Wal Mart for 4 cents a piece and have the groups create a storyboard

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 I could have them create a slideshow of the images themselves. 

Then each group would be assigned another group's photo slideshow and infer/write the story they think they were trying to tell! 

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Inference Pin Board

I started to create an "Inference" pin board on Pinterest recently when I came across a board by

     Rachel Lynette

I repined her pins and started adding others to the collection as well!

I couldn't figure out how I could use these pins  in my classroom since Pinterest is blocked in my school. (Is it just me or do schools block everything that could be potentially useful besides the boring educational websites?)

Then I realized that I could turn my pin board into a PDF file and show it on my promethean board or print a class set and have students make their inferences on separate sheets of paper!

In case you do not know how to do this, here are some easy steps!

Step one: Pull up your pin board and scroll to the bottom to make sure all the pins have loaded

Step two: Click "File" and "Print" in your browser window 

Step three: When the dialogue box comes up select "PDF" and "Save as a PDF"

Step four: Name it something and save it on your computer somewhere safe!

Step Five: Locate and open your PDF and feel a sense of accomplishment.

The only downside is that sometimes the captions run off on to the next page and I am unsure of how to fix this issue!

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