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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:
More about Venn diagrams here.
Roll over the image with your mouse to see what's inside the cactus.
More about block diagrams here.
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:
All Sorts of Things (Grades K–2) Here
Alone in the Desert (Grades 6–8) Here
Animal Clues (Grades K–2) Here
Body Maps (Grades 3–5) Here
The Cat on the Chimney (Grades 3–5) Here
Crazy Weather (Grades 3–5) Here
Cut and Join (Grades K-2) Here
Fins and Feathers (Grades K-2) Here
Habitats (Grades K-2) Here
How Many Eyes? (Grades K–2) Here
The Paper Skyscraper (Grades K–5) Here
Sharks (Grades 3–5) Here
Skeleton (Grades K-2) Here
Small Worlds (Grades 3–5) Here
What Did You Eat Today? (Grades K–2) Here
What Do They Eat? (Grades K–2) Here
You Are Here (Grades K–2) Here
• 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
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