Visual+Literacy

= Visual Literacy = Below are some readings you may like to explore that focus on visual literacy [|Why teach visual literacy?] [|Picture Books - Who are they for. Shaun Tan] [|Critical Literacy and Visual Texts] [|Talking about visual texts with students by Jon Callow] Includes ideas for classroom application of concepts

[|Visual Literacy for primary students] . Contains ideas for working with a wide variety of picture books [|Centre for media literacy - visual literacy] Articles and ideas for classroom implementation [|Visual Literacy Unit] This unit was written for Year 7. It provides useful information about visual grammar as well as activities that are easily adapted to primary settings covering picture books, reading photographs, comics and art. [|Cartoon writing] Use this web site to create cartoons.
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Lesson Plans
Below are some lesson plans that you may like to access to see how others have worked with this aspect of literacy across a range of year levels. The S3 lesson inlcudes connections to he QT framework and the four roles of the reader.