Literacy Teaching

Using Images in Literacy

February 7, 2009

Visual literacy is a necessary part of life nowadays.  It stands alone as an area in its own right but it can also be used to support the teaching and learning of reading and writing. This post is an attempt to describe how we do that.  We:-

• use images to support understanding of literary techniques, e.g. putting title slides in a film that has been run through Moviemaker to show where there would be paragraph changes if it was a written text
• use images to demonstrate understanding, e.g. collecting a group ofimages that reflect the meaning of a poem or the theme of a story (focus on images that show not tell)
• use images to support memory and create a shared understanding, e.g this is most frequently used after a trip or a visitor to the classroom
• use images to suppport vocabulary development, watch the film for an example of this

• use images to support understanding of text structure, e.g. through sequencing activities which can develop to show flash backs and other time management techniques
• use images to help create the message for the reader, e.g. choice of image in a persuasive text or an explanatory text
• create film

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