Home | What is visual literacy? | Examples of visual texts |Using visual literacy | Assessing visual literacy | Books for children | Books for teachers | Free materials for teachers | Seminars & workshops | About us | Contact us | Copyright| Books for teachers by Steve Moline I see what you mean: children at work with visual information This book outlines learning/literacy strategies that invite K8 students to communicate using visual texts. Over one hundred student examples illustrate how students can communicate some concepts better with visual texts (such as diagrams) than with conventional, words-only texts (such as a written essay). For a detailed contents list of this book click here. For a free copy of Chapter One click here. To ask a consultant to show you this book
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What is Visual Literacy? (DVD) Visual literacy for K8 classrooms is explained in this 40minute video, now available on DVD. Includes a teacher's workshop and demonstration lesson in a grade 4 classroom in New Hampshire. To see a short clip from this DVD and for more details on its contents To ask a consultant to show you the DVD
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The Information Toolkit is a series of cross-curriculum work units in photocopiable form. Examples of nonfiction visual texts can be copied and shared with students. Assessment sheets are included for each visual text. Contains units of work you can photocopy for classroom use. For a detailed contents list click here. For a FREE copy of the book's Introduction: Using this book click here. Distributed in USA by Dominie/Pearson Education.
This is the Canadian edition of the Information Toolkit. Contains units of work you can photocopy for classroom use. For a detailed contents list click here. For a free copy of the book's Introduction: Using this book click here. Distributed in Canada by Scholastic Canada.
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