Logographics are like designing road signs for terms or concepts. It’s sort of similar to the graphic organizer, where information is presented as an image for the visual learners. The recipe is simple take a vocabulary word or hard to understand concept and add in one picture, then mix with color, and hopefully the student will have baked something that will help them remember the new information.
Maybe it’s just me, but I always had a good time anytime I let students draw pictures. If nothing else, students like having their work presented on the walls, and it would be great to hang some of these logographics on the wall, as opposed to just those “hang in there!” posters. When students make them for themselves they will be more likely to remember it than when it’s something that only has meaning and significance for the teacher. For instance, I can always remember that “coerce” means to force because I think about Star Wars, and I would draw a lightsaber to help remember that, but my students hated Star Wars, so that wouldn’t help them at all. The goal is to get them to learn in ways that make them comfortable, not ways that worked for the teacher 15 years ago. I did this a few times with literary terms having them make personal symbols and illustrating personification, but I didn’t utilize it enough in vocabulary, and that’s a change I want to make.
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