Posted by Mattie Spain on Jan 13, 2019; 9:57pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/Visual-Thinking-Strategies-tp12613p13090.html

I agree with you! VTS allows more students to be active/engaged learners in the classroom. There are no "wrong" answers, and students find comfort in knowing that. I often speak with the ELL teacher who works in my classroom, and VTS goes right along with Glad strategies used in ELL. We love using it to introduce a topic because we find that those gaps in vocabulary disappear as they hear the words mentioned in a comfortable discussion setting. They aren't expected to know anything, and they learn from their classmates.