- Definition
An "image round-table" is an activity where students look at different pictures, write down their thoughts about each one, and then later read what others wrote to inspire their own art or writing.
After everyone has written a secret thought about a picture of a stormy sea, the group reads all the words like 'angry,' 'loud,' and 'scared' together.
How to teach this in 30 seconds
Try this analogy: An image round-table is like a game where everyone secretly adds one idea about a picture, then you unfold the paper to see all the thoughts together.
Ask your child: If you added a secret idea to this picture, what would you write?
Common mix-up: Kids may think they're just supposed to say what the picture is 'of.' The goal is to build a collection of many different ideas and feelings about the same image, with no single 'right' answer.
Examples
- Using the group's words, a student writes a short poem about the 'lonely' and 'quiet' feeling of a painting of an empty chair.
- Another student draws a new picture showing what might happen next, inspired by the group's ideas about a picture of a mysterious door.
image round-table is a term used in Ontario’s Kindergarten to Grade 8 curriculum.
Where this shows up
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