The Talking Drawings Strategy: Using Primary Children’s Illustrations and Oral Language to Improve Comprehension of Expository Text |
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| Authors: | Kelli R Paquette Susan E Fello Mary Renck Jalongo |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Professional Studies in Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 570 South 11th Street, Davis Hall, Room 327, Indiana, PA 15705, USA;(2) Department of Education and Educational Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 303 Davis Hall, Indiana, PA 15705, USA |
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| Abstract: | Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of
their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from
an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion
with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting
children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content
knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository
text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information
and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired
information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the
“before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology,
facts, and principles on a particular topic. |
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| Keywords: | talking drawings children’ s artwork listening comprehension reading comprehension expository texts |
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