literacy leaders meeting2
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Looking at Visual Language through LiteracyTRANSCRIPT
Visual Language
Visual Language
Visual Language
Visual Language
What is visual language Listening, reading, and viewing
Speaking, writing, and presenting
NZ Curriculum
Visual Language
- contrast, colour, communication
- assaulting the eyes and stimulating the brain
- engages children because their world is a
visual world, images for them are part of living, TV, computers, movies, playstations and x box.
Gestures and Facial expressions
The Power of the Sign
Mandy Milne:Using website BeFunky.com to make images
of children into people from the cultures they were studying. (also Photofunia)
Dictated sentences:
Dictated sentencesTeacher reads a story and then re reads in paragraphs. Children write one word or a phrase that summarises the paragraph and draws a picture to match. This could be at the chapter book or nursery rhyme level. This could be done digitally.
Red Riding Hood Grandma Met a wolf
Wolf ate Grandma Wolf nearly got Little Red
Wolf died
Quotes Use quotes to practise handwriting, then ask
the children to illustrate them graphically and/or digitally. Eg Many hands make light work.
Use comic strips for writing either draft or publishing – try Comic Life download.
Shapes for story publishing – eg: class climbing Tauhara, the shape of the mountain was the publishing frame.
Making posters. Magazine covers and signs: Big Huge Labs
Publish your own book!! Lulu
Mandy is now hoping to get her class into animation: we suggested she try the following:
If you are interested, start with PivotAnimate in KidpixAnimate in Power PointUse movie maker to do stop start animation
To succeed in the academic and vocational world, students must be proficient in both reading and writing – they must be literate. But to navigate in the real world, they must also be visually literate – able to decode, comprehend and analyze the elements, messages and values communicated by images
Say it with words and you're lucky if they hear it or bother to read it. Tell you story with imagery, and it grabs attentions, evokes emotion and is more instantly processed. Sixty thousand times as fast, say some researchers.