Every time a story is told, an event described, or an image created in words or pictures, it is “re-presented”. Representing encourages students to expand and extend their repertoire of skills and strategies for communication, not at the expense of verbal language but as an important complement to it (Messaris, 1997,
p. 3). Representing enables students to communicate their ideas using a variety of media and formats, including diagrams, sounds, charts, movement or gestures, illustrations, photographs, images or symbols, posters, three-dimensional objects or models, video presentations, music, and dramatizations. In many cases, representing allows students to make sense of their learning and to demonstrate their understanding.
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