Visual Literacy
There are five components in how hearing students begin to learn how to read through five stages of literacy growth: scribbling, phonic rules, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and scope/sequence/curriculum. But there are two approaches in teaching students to read are either through visual literacy or balanced literacy. To many educators, visual literacy may take a back seat comparing with balanced literacy to teach diverse student to read. Visual literacy is often overlooked and may be deemed as unimportant. As seen in the study, Deaf students are visual literate students. John Debes is the co-founder of International Visual Literacy Association and theorized visual literacy is better teaching practices (Debes, 2014). Therefore, …show more content…
This method benefit greatly to the Deaf students because it focused on visual cues. It is important to consider how visual literacy benefit diverse students so we can learn from each other on how to help students to improve their reading comprehension. The result showed Deaf students benefited greatly through visual literacy approach comparing with balanced literacy. The visual literacy study revealed that the Deaf students and special needs students were significantly more skilled at reading decoding the passages, implying that they are visual literate students at interpreting visual …show more content…
Visual literacy has more benefits for the Deaf students because they can learn how to read differently than the “hearing” students. The term “hearing” is used by the Deaf community to identify people who are not Deaf. Hearing children can learn how to read through mapping the spoken language they already know and printed words on a page because the children can recognize letters through sounds. The article stated “‘once children understand the underlying principles of the print-sound mapping---once they ‘crack the code’---they can call upon their knowledge of their spoken language to facilitate the reading process’” (Hasan, 2015). Deaf children learn how to read through mapping between sign language they know and printed words where they can map printed words into sign language to learn how to read English through visual language. Visual literacy provides visual cues to help Deaf students recognize letter through sign language rather than hearing sounds. The study report how concerned parent are investigating another approach for their Deaf child since statistic confirmed what we, Deaf learners, knew about our average reading level being low. The statistic revealed deaf high school graduate in the US remains, after decades of little improvement, at roughly the third or fourth level
There are five components in how hearing students begin to learn how to read through five stages of literacy growth: scribbling, phonic rules, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and scope/sequence/curriculum. But there are two approaches in teaching students to read are either through visual literacy or balanced literacy. To many educators, visual literacy may take a back seat comparing with balanced literacy to teach diverse student to read. Visual literacy is often overlooked and may be deemed as unimportant. As seen in the study, Deaf students are visual literate students. John Debes is the co-founder of International Visual Literacy Association and theorized visual literacy is better teaching practices (Debes, 2014). Therefore, …show more content…
This method benefit greatly to the Deaf students because it focused on visual cues. It is important to consider how visual literacy benefit diverse students so we can learn from each other on how to help students to improve their reading comprehension. The result showed Deaf students benefited greatly through visual literacy approach comparing with balanced literacy. The visual literacy study revealed that the Deaf students and special needs students were significantly more skilled at reading decoding the passages, implying that they are visual literate students at interpreting visual …show more content…
Visual literacy has more benefits for the Deaf students because they can learn how to read differently than the “hearing” students. The term “hearing” is used by the Deaf community to identify people who are not Deaf. Hearing children can learn how to read through mapping the spoken language they already know and printed words on a page because the children can recognize letters through sounds. The article stated “‘once children understand the underlying principles of the print-sound mapping---once they ‘crack the code’---they can call upon their knowledge of their spoken language to facilitate the reading process’” (Hasan, 2015). Deaf children learn how to read through mapping between sign language they know and printed words where they can map printed words into sign language to learn how to read English through visual language. Visual literacy provides visual cues to help Deaf students recognize letter through sign language rather than hearing sounds. The study report how concerned parent are investigating another approach for their Deaf child since statistic confirmed what we, Deaf learners, knew about our average reading level being low. The statistic revealed deaf high school graduate in the US remains, after decades of little improvement, at roughly the third or fourth level