Curriculum inspiration

I want to give a shout out to this really wonderful resource. Our ideas for this project have been largely inspired by Wendy Ewald's book I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children. This practical and accessible guide is written for parents and teachers and has some really good ideas about photography for children, some like our family assignment, are very simple and affective, and some are a little more complex. The main idea is that photographs inspire stories from children's lives or fantasies and vice versa. The stories that play out in their images become a catalyst for writing and literacy. We have been able to take these ideas and modify them to meet the English needs of our students here.