Working with my group of young teachers has certainly been a great source of inspiration to write entries for this blog. We've recently been exploring ways to supplement English language materials through the use and adaptation of stories, poems, games, chants, songs, and evidently, using online tools and apps.
One of the suggestions was to include rebus in poems and stories. A rebus is a written text that includes words and pictures. They're described as "deep in thought" as they foster cognitive development which is the way in which we understand or make sense of the 🌎 around us. How we learn, acquire, develop and use the language to express 💡 and 💭.
Using pictures to represent words dates back to Egypt and its hieroglyphics and the Chinese pictographs. However, it wasn't until the 1500's that a particular format of picture writing was invented in France. It was called rebus and they became very popular in Europe. In fact, Lewis Carroll author of "Alice in Wonderland" was passionate about rebus.
Rebus can make reading fun, entertaining, and help children develop reading and writing skills as well.
Here's an example of what a rebus story would look like using Google slides and the emoji keyboard. You can share the slides with your students through the school LMS and ask them to complete the story or write their own. It is worth giving it a try. I'm pretty sure your student will love to interact with those popular characters they find everywhere nowadays.
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source: https://kottke.org/tag/Lewis%20Carroll
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