Teaching Visual Literacy

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Overview

"This book puts into practice what we've long known but often ignored: one picture is indeed worth a thousand words! The chapters offer a practical look at how images in all their many forms can be used to motivate reluctant readers."
--Donna E. Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor
University of Georgia

"Just as vision entails more than seeing, being visually literate means that students can interpret and reflect upon images as well as words. These strategies will help your students develop the literacy they need for this brave new century."
--Carol Jago, Director, California Reading and Literature Project
University of California, Los Angeles

Spark students' interest in reading and help them become critical consumers of visual information!

Today's students live in an increasingly visual world where they are engaged not only by words, but also by images. This collection of innovative articles shows classroom teachers and literacy specialists how to use students' interest in picture books, comics, graphic novels, film, anime, and other visual media to motivate and engage readers in Grades K--12.

Teaching Visual Literacy offers background information, research, practical ideas, and sample lessons to help educators:

  • Capture the attention of learners and boost their critical thinking skills
  • Support and strengthen multiple competencies in literacy
  • Help students comprehend and assess visual information
  • Reach students with disabilities and extend their understanding

Visual literacy is an integral part of literacy development, and thismuch-needed classroom companion helps teachers engage students as critical readers and prepare them for living in the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781412953115
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Publication date: 1/9/2008
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 210
  • Product dimensions: 8.25 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 0.44 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
About the Editors     ix
About the Contributors     xi
Introduction   Nancy Frey   Douglas Fisher     1
Visual Literacy: What You Get Is What You See   Lynell Burmark     5
Graphic Novels: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly   Jacquelyn McTaggart     27
Comics, the Canon, and the Classroom   James Bucky Carter     47
Seeing the World Through a Stranger's Eyes: Exploring the Potential of Anime in Literacy Classrooms   Kelly Chandler-Olcott     61
"Literary Literacy" and the Role of the Comic Book: Or, "You Teach a Class on What?"   Rocco Versaci     91
That's Funny: Political Cartoons in the Classroom   Thomas DeVere Wolsey     113
Learning From Illustrations in Picturebooks   Lawrence R. Sipe     131
An Irrecusable Offer: Film in the K-12 Classroom   Lawrence Baines     149
"It Was Always the Pictures...": Creating Visual Literacy Supports for Students With Disabilities   Paula Kluth     169
Index     189
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