Nonlinguistic Representations

I am learning about Marzano's famous learning skills. I want to know more about nonlinguistic representation. How has it been used in your classroom? Or other classrooms you know of? Should we be worried that kids should spend more time focusing on words, rather than non-word representations?

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Permalink Reply by Marie G. on January 30, 2010 at 12:03pm

Nonlinguistic representation helps students make sense of the enormous amount of information (and words) that they are learning and helps make connections. I teach Reading which lends itself to drama inspired representations (Jeff Wilhelm's Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension is my source of inspiration!). With each cycle of instruction I have my kids read about, write about, talk about, and do something with the information. The nonlinguistic representation is often part of the do something with phase.