Why do you make it visual?
Because making it visual helps the students understand better. It helps them remember. Remember, these are students who tend to understand what they see better than what they hear. Therefore, putting the information into a visual form is an important learning experience. The visual tools encourage the communication partners to become more involved in the social interaction. They help to extend and expand social interaction. The visual support makes conversations much more effective than just trying to have a verbal conversation.

What does this have to do with homework?
Preparing and using these communication tools helps students develop some critically important skills. Creating the tools and communicating the information they contain is the homework!

Which students would benefit from this activity?
Most students! The concept of Today at School and Last Night at Home can be developed to support communication for students across many age and ability levels. Of course, the activity needs to be adapted to a level that individual students can understand and use. There are limitless ways that these tools can be developed. See the examples.

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