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I See What You Mean:
Children at Work with Visual Information
Contents
Chapter 1 Do I need this book?
Many information texts use visual elements
Many visual texts are accessible to all readers
Many visual texts are complex, multilayered texts
Visual texts communicate certain information more clearly than verbal texts
Which is the most appropriate text?
Visual texts are widely used in the electronic media
Visual literacy is a life skill
Positive outcomes
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Chapter 2 Reading and writing information
What do we read and write in a day?
How we read depends on our purpose for reading
What is special about selective reading?
Writing information
Graphic design
Integrated texts
Writing and drawing
Matching text and purpose
Recomposing
Chapter 3 Simple diagrams
Picture glossaries
Diagrams as summaries
Diagrams that show structure
Diagrams with keys
Scale diagrams
The asphalt chalkboard
Photographs and diagrams
Chapter 4 Analytic diagrams
Cutaways
Cross sections
Chapter 5 Synthetic diagrams
Flow diagrams (flow charts)
Summarising processes
Forked sequences
Cyclical flow diagrams
"How to" sequences
Tree diagrams
Tree diagrams and (website) menus
Web diagrams (concept maps)
Chapter 6 Graphs
Designing and using graphs
Bar and column graphs
Turning graphs into verbal text
Line graphs
"Which graph should we use?"
Graphs, timelines, maps, and tables
Chapter 7 Time lines
Simple time lines
Multiple time lines
Chapter 8 Maps
What do maps tell us?
Bird's eye views
Comparing bird's eye views with maps
Context maps
Home maps
Home-to-school maps
Flow maps
Map coordinates
Chapter 9 Tables
Interpreting tables
Writing a column table
Writing a row-and-column table
Tables with figures
Pictorial tables
Choosing the most useful text
Recomposing information from a table into a graph
Chapter 10 Graphic design
Layout
Typography
Typefaces
Fonts
Signposts
Graphic design in the classroom
Graphic design and integrated texts
Reading the design in published texts
Some topics to start with
Keep it simple
Bibliography
Index
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