Visual Schema for Oral Storytelling Instruction

University of Phoenix

Visual Schema for Oral Storytelling Instruction

Through a discussion on multiple intelligences, Gardner (2008, in Fischer & Immordino-Yang) presented the challenge for educators to connect new learning in a manner respective of current knowledge. The use of a visual schema meets this challenge when the instructor stimulates sensory memory and cognitive growth through a visual graphic guided instructional setting (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2005). Byrne (2008, in Fischer & Immordino-Yang) explains how the visual schema graphic combined with modeling and instruction helps learners identify patterns and functional relationships between existing knowledge and new learning. According to Hunt, Wiseman, and Touzel...