Choose a picture or image

Have students study the image

Then ask them to use their imagination and "jump" into the picture.

Tell them they can be any size, but they have to pick a specific spot in the picture to land and tell their neighbor why that spot.

Ask questions related to the 5 senses: What do you hear?

What do you smell?

What is something you could touch? What do you think it would feel like?

Is there food?  What would it taste like?

What do you see?  Is there anything hidden that you would only be able to see in the picture?

You can pick the whole picture or a part of the picture and cover the rest of the picture

Have the students take some time to just look at the picture.  

Then ask them for what they see-concrete, observable only

Then ask them what they think is going on in the picture, what the purpose of the picture is, and what things are leading them to these ideas. (they can use the see column as evidence for the think column)

Then ask them what they wonder about the picture.  Go beyond the surface of the picture what happened before or after.  What do they wonder about why the picture was taken.

Have students share their thoughts we each other.

Prep work-You will need to cover the majority of the picture at first and then slowly reveal the picture.

Start with a small portion of the image showing for the students.

Ask what do you see?

What is your hypothesis or interpretation of what this might be?

Let students share their thoughts.

Reveal a little more

What new things do you see?  Has this new information changed your first hypothesis?  What are you wondering now?

Repeat this process until the whole picture is revealed.

Have students think back to their first thought-were they able to create a full idea of the picture?  Did they need more evidence to understand the picture?  Make this connection to their writing.  If you don't have the evidence to support the picture or your writing then it is not a clear picture or written response.