Digital Imagery as Oral Fluency Stimulator

Authors Maureen Sim, Nursery Teacher,

Emma Griffiths, ICT Liaison, Stoneyhill Primary School, Musselburgh, East Lothian

The objective of the project was to promote confident individuals and effective contributors by working on verbal fluency with children at pre-literate stages, in a descriptive, followed by story- making, sequence of pictures.

Objectives

Images from Flickr, used in slide show format, on a laptopSoftware

Description Nursery children, in a free choice setting, opted to come to the computer in turn, and initially describe, respond and comment on a series of pictures. On the final image being shown, they were asked very open ended questions, and stimulated to create a story about the picture

Learning Areas Confident individuals, Effective Contributors

Levels 3 to 4 years

Verbal fluency, picture stimulus, digital imageryKeywords

Story Making with nursery children

Digital Imagery as Oral Fluency Stimulator

Teaching Resources

To prepare for teaching in the nursery setting using a digital image sequence, a Flickr slideshow was put together. See document below for details.

A laptop was used to show the sequence, and children took it in turns to come and work one to one beside the laptop.

Internet access is required to access Flickr, but a slideshow could probably be exported, and saved to a file if this isn’t possible.

A separate laptop could be used to directly transcribe the stories as they were spoken, saving a manual transcription stage.

DocumentsMicrosoft Word

Document

Digital Imagery as Oral Fluency Stimulator

Teacher and School Information

Stoneyhill Primary School was built in 1996, and extended, with the new parts of the building opening in 2006.

The school nursery has it’s own access, and garden, and has space for 30 children in the morning, and 30 in the afternoon.

Maureen Sim the nursery teacher is assisted by Nursery nurses Linda Banks, and Morag Tickell.

Stoneyhill Primary School

Musselburgh

East Lothian