Using Visuals to Teach Direct and Indirect Objects in English Classrooms

I was a substitute today in a ninth-grade English classroom.  The students were reviewing direct and indirect objects.  While their textbooks had good examples and practice sentences, I found the need to create a visual that could communicate the basic ideas clearly and quickly, with graphic reinforcement of a simple English sentence.  I created a graphic and shared it with the afternoon classes.

This helped several of the students master the basic concepts quickly.  Those that were still challenged by the concept do not seem to have paid much attention to the graphic example.

Pictures and graphics are frequently great ways to anchor concepts in English and especially for non-native English speakers (English language learners).  Students in the classroom where I was a substitute today already speak English and the graphics help them as well.