PWIM is a fun, interactive way to teach your child(ren) to read and write. This program uses pictures to help students build sight vocabulary as well as learn phonics rules. PWIM is an inquiry-oriented language arts strategy that uses pictures containing familiar objects and actions to obtain words from children’s listening and speaking vocabularies. Teachers use the PWIM with classes, small groups, and individuals to lead them into inquiring about words, adding words to their sight-reading and writing vocabularies, discovering phonetic and structural principles, and using observations and analysis in their study of reading.
Here’s how it works:
1. Find a poster that relates to a topic you are studying or will be studying.
2. Have your child(ren) find or name the words of things, actions, adjectives on the poster.
3. Write the words beside the picture and spell out loud with your child(ren).
4. Spell the words out loud daily with your child(ren).
5. From there, have your child(ren) write sentences about the poster using words from the picture.
6. Writing assignments can then be generated.
Other key points:
A poster can last as long as you wish (one week, two weeks, etc.)
Have students group words according to attributes (eg. book, cook, hook—all have double “o’s”, all end with “k”. Enclosed in this newsletter is a list of some attributes
Calhoun, Emily. (1999).
Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model. ASCD: Alexandria, VA.
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Greetings from The Commonwealth of Dominica.
Dominica is The Nature Ilse of the Caribbean.
Simply natural, green and alive.
The Commonwealth of Dominica is an island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago. It is the largest and most mountainous of the Windward Islands, with volcanic peaks, mountain streams and rivers, beachesof both black (volcanic) and golden sands, dense forests, quietlakes, waterfalls, geysers and boiling volcanic pools.Dominica is a major eco-tourist destination.
The island, which was originally occupied by Carib Indians(some of whose descendants remain), was discovered by Columbus in 1493 and colonised by the French in the 1600s. In 1805, the island became a British possession and remained under British rule until 1967, when internal self-government was granted, followed by full independence in1978.
The Capital of The Commonwealth of Dominica is Roseau. The official language of Dominica is English. A French patois Creole is spoken by most persons on the island.
The island, which was originally occupied by Carib Indians(some of whose descendants remain), was discovered by Columbus in 1493 and colonised by the French in the 1600s. In 1805, the island became a British possession and remained under British rule until 1967, when internal self-government was granted, followed by full independence in1978.
The Capital of The Commonwealth of Dominica is Roseau. The official language of Dominica is English. A French patois Creole is spoken by most persons on the island.
The Commonwealth of Dominica became an independent state on November 3rd 1978.
The flag of The Commonwealth of Dominica is
Green, with a centered cross of three equal bands - the vertical part is yellow (hoist side),black, and white and the horizontal part isyellow (top), black, and white; superimposed in the center of the cross is a red disk bearing aSisserou parrot encircled by 10 green, five-pointed stars edged in yellow; the 10 stars represent the 10 administrative divisions (parishes).
Dominica Coat of Arms
The shield is supported by two Sisserou parrots (Amazona imperialis). They are perched on a strip of parchment on which is written in Creole, the national motto: "Apres Bondie C’est La Ter". In the established form accepted by Creole linguists today it would be written: "Apwe Bondye Se La Te." It means, "After God it is the Land". However "La Te" can be translated to mean, the land, the Earth or the soil. But the message of the motto for the people of a mainly agricultural island is that after praising God first, the next most important thing is the land in the form of bearing fruit. It can also be extended to mean the land in the nationalist sense that after your commitment to God then comes your commitment to your country. The use of Creole represents also the influence of France on the island and the part played by African traditions and language in the creation of the Creole heritage.
Dominica
Nature Island
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ReplyDeleteI'd make my thesis S1's title is THE IMPROVING OF STUDENTS' DESCRIPTIVE WRITING THROUGH PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL. Would you like to explain how the relationship between them?
Thank you in advance
I have used this method with remedial boys and it worked well.
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