Visual Literacy Presentation

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Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XxQW3TVjIqcs2-kPW4GW7oC6fzbpICbi59RKjuQlv0M/edit?usp=sharing

 Worth A Thousand Words By Maryl Jaffe & Talia Hurwich
  • Description: This text shows and describes the importance of integrating visual literacy and how it helps students meet educational goals they might have difficulty with through regular texts/novel. It’s goal is to show teachers and parents that bringing graphic novels or other forms of visual literacy can help their students stay motivated and engaged. The text shows addresses how a teacher may implement visual literacy to meet the common core standards, as well as shows lesson plans and other examples that the teacher could use in their own classroom.
    Chapter 1: Fears and Facts
    • Fear of classics versus graphic novels and the fear of losing the “passion for prose,” backlash from parents or administrators, not understanding a graphic novel or how to teach it
    • Graphic novels and Common Core Standards
    • How and where to find graphic novels
    Chapter 2: Why Use Graphic Novels?
    • How graphic novels improve and enhance teaching methods
    • Research that has come out about graphic novels
    • The Power of visual educational content to boost academic performance
    • Lesson plans
    Chapter 3: Reading Pictures
    • Teaching how to critically read an image
    • Ways to assess your student’s visual literacy
    • Actual lesson plans and exercises to evaluate student understanding of their visual literacy skills
    Chapter 4: How to Teach Graphic Novels
    • Anatomy of a graphic novel
    • How to critically read panels
    • How to critically read a whole page 
    • Lesson plans
    Chapter 5: Motivation
    • Getting to know your students to know how to motivate them
    • Recognizing the importance of creating and breaking routine
    • Using art in language arts classrooms
    • Addressing student reluctance
    • Lesson plans
    Chapter 6: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Reading
    • Addressing the challenges of integrating graphic novels into your reading curriculum
    • Finding appropriate graphic novel texts
    • Training readers to slow down
    • Language use and vocabulary
    • Reading comprehension and close reading
    • Lesson plans

    Chapter 7: Graphic Novels and the Writing Process
    • Using graphic novels to teach writing prose fiction and nonfiction
    • Envisioning characters 
    • Establishing a setting
    • Understanding pacing
    • Sequencing
    • Using images and imagery to provide information
    • Writing graphic novels
    • Lesson plans
    Chapter 8: Graphic Novels and Content-Area Curriculum
    • Graphic novels in math, social studies, and science
    • Lesson plans
    Why this text?
    1. Distinguishes graphic novels from comic and learn where to find them
    2. Understanding how graphic novels can improve teaching and motivate students
    3. Dissect the graphic novel’s page to reveal the complexity that informs visual and verbal literacy, critical studies, and sequencing skills.
    4. Integrating graphic novels into lessons on character development
    Teaching Ideas
    1. Using the lesson plans and exercises provided in the book.
    2. Having the students create their own comic, graphic, storyboard, etc.
    3. Using the teacher rubrics in the book to assess student understanding
    Challenges:
    1. Although graphic novels may help satisfy some student’s learning styles, not all students enjoy graphic novels and we will have to work on how to motivate them and to accomodate to them as well.
    2. Finding the right graphic novel for the appropriate age group.
    3. Students, Parents, and Administrators may not think graphic novels are appropriate for the secondary age level.
    More:
    • There is a bonus resource that comes with the online download that provides an extensive list of over 200 graphic novels currently available, summaries, notes, and grade levels for these books. 
    • Meryljaffe.com
    • taliahurwich.com




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