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| What's free on this site? There are plenty of free teaching materials on this site. Any page can be downloaded for your own professional use in the classroom, but please read the box on the right first.
FREE examples of visual texts New and recent visual texts added to our pages of free examples include Venn diagrams and block diagrams:
Other FREE examples of visual texts which you can use to teach the basics of visual information literacy are listed here FREE worksheets Worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed out for classroom use. These are Adobe Acrobat files. The first of these is an introduction to nonfiction genres: explanations and procedures. Here The latest of these free worksheets is a set of picture cards. Here FREE guide to map literacy Maps are not just for "doing geography." We use maps almost every day in our adult lives, to get about town, to plan a vacation, to invite friends to a special event, to find a room in a new school, ... the uses are too many to list. In fact, map reading and map writing form a basic lifelong literacy skill. Click here FREE chapter from Steve's book on visual literacy, I See What You Mean. This is the first classroom guide to visual literacy for K-8 teachers. It's illustrated with children's work and full of practical activities that have succeeded with teachers in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ. Click here FREE Teaching Guides to David Drew's books with lesson plans you can try out in your classroom. Each lesson plan offers practical ideas for visual literacy:
FREE chapter from the Information Toolkit series. These three books include examples of visual texts, information genres, and units of research work which you can photocopy for classroom use. This chapter explains how to use the books. Here FREE ideas for your classroom Each teaching strategy has been thoroughly tested in K-8 classrooms. We provide detailed lessons plans for each strategy. The latest in our series is a strategy that combines literacy, visualizing and decision-making skills. Here Copyright © Black Cockatoo Publishing PL 2006
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