Visual Literacy Research Paper

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There are many ways teachers can educate children in ‘visual literacy,’ this can be done by introducing still and moving texts such as, tables, graphs, photos, videos and movies to name a few. One example of a teaching method to assist in visual literacy would be, giving children a stack of plain white cards and asking them to create a still picture onto each card to create a story. The teacher would show an example of their own, so there is no confusion, such as individual cards of a dog jumping higher and higher on each card, eventually catching a Frisbee but on the last card it would show the dog landing and tumbling over. The teacher would give the students time to draw their own individual stories and then when finished, jumbling the students

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