Drawing Pictures & Pictographs

Drawing Pictures and Pictographs. Drawing pictures or pictographs (i.e., symbolic pictures) to represent knowledge is a powerful way to generate nonlinguistic representations in the mind. For example, most students have either drawn or colored the human skeletal system or have seen a picture of one in the classroom. Similarly, most students have drawn or colored a representation of the solar system. A variation of a picture is the pictograph, which is a drawing that uses symbols or symbolic pictures to represent information. The above example shows how a 1st grade teacher uses symbolic pictures in a geography lesson.