Telling Stories With Photo Essays: A Guide for PreK-5 Teachers - Softcover

Thompson, Susan A. Conklin; Williams, Kayenta N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412964598 ISBN 13: 9781412964593

Publisher: Corwin, 2009

Synopsis

This resource offers teachers strategies for helping children create photo essays as a way to communicate their ideas, experiences, and emotions in an authentic and personal way.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Conklin Thompson is a professor at the University of Northern Colorado, where she coordinates the early childhood program and teaches early childhood and elementary education courses. Thompson has authored numerous articles, two multicultural books for children, and eight books for teachers, including Children as Illustrators: Making Meaning through Art and Language (National Association for the Education of Young Children). She has been the recipient of several university awards for teaching excellence and outstanding research and scholarship and in 2001 was awarded the Early Childhood Professional of the Year Award by the Wyoming Early Childhood Association.

Kayenta Williams holds an MFA in creative writing and has worked extensively with English language learners as an elementary ELL teacher. She has authored both fiction and nonfiction work, including an article in Social Studies and the Young Learner entitled “Photo Essays: Using Photography to Tell a Story”, which she co-authored with Susan Conklin Thompson.

Review:

"A beneficial reference to working with photo essays with young children.” Author: Karen Thomes, Teacher Published On: 2009-05-15

“This book demonstrates the power of the photo essay to help children grow intellectually and emotionally. It includes ideas for a wide array of projects along with plenty of examples of projects students have done in different schools and community settings. The fantastic thing about the book is the commitment to teaching that serves every child―a commitment that arises from a vision of democratic learning.” Author: David W. Romtvedt, Professor Published On: 2009-06-18

"Thompson shows as much as tells what photo essays are and how to use them to enhance and extend children’s understanding of their world. Educators will want this book because of the curricular integration, differentiation, and instruction centered on helping children use all components of literacy, including visual representation.” Author: Michael Opitz, Professor of Reading Published On: 2009-06-18

“I really like this book, and I’m eager to use it as a supplement for various methods courses in elementary education and early childhood. I would also use it in a special workshop or seminar class.” Author: Rebecca S. Compton, Professor of Elementary Education Published On: 2009-05-15

"Countless students will be forever changed by this fascinating text and its message that the immense power of images enables anyone to say, ′This is where I am, this is what I see. Look at my world through my eyes.′" Author: Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author of Sundays in America Published On: 2009-06-25

"The authors offer a wealth of ways to engage children in expressing meaning and documenting experiences through photographs. They provide all the practical help teachers need to use this exciting medium to expand children’s ways of perceiving, representing, and thinking about their world." Author: Carol Copple, Director of Publications and Initiatives in Educational Practice Published On: 2009-07-01

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412964598
• ISBN 13: 9781412964593
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152