TABLE OF CONTENTS

   


 


Visual Literacy
Defined

 

 

Visual Literacy:
Readings

 


Visual Literacy:
Standards

 

 Visual Literacy:
Lesson Plans

 
 
 Visual Literacy:
Texts
 
Visual Literacy:
Videos

Visual Literacy:
Journals

Is Seeing Believing?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Visual Literacy  
©2008 Frank W. Baker

 see also: Images of War; Media magazines; Semiotics/Signs;
2007 Photos of the Year       2006 Photos of the Year



Visual Literacy  Texts

click the cover images or hyper-links to learn more about each book

Books for K-12
 
Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life
Lincoln Through The Lens

Reading Photographs to Write With Meaning and Purpose,
Grades 4–12

I Wanna Take Me A Picture 
Teaching Photography & WritingTo Children

by Wendy Ewald



Study Guide

Image Matters
Visual Texts 
In the Classroom
The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography
Lark Books

Teaching The Visual Media
Peter Greenaway
(Australia)

Picture this
Curriculum Corporation.
ISBN: 1863663657

Picture This
How Pictures Work
by Molly Bang
SBN13: 9781587170300
ISBN10: 1587170302
Highly recommended for K-12 libraries

Visual Messages
Integrating Imagery Into Instruction

David Considine 
& Gail Haley
     


Other General Recommendations (Books/DVDS)


Photos Icons
The Story Behind The Pictures

Sept 08

Photojournalism 6th Ed
6th Edition (w/DVD)

Picturing Texts

Picturing Texts:
Composition in a Visual Age

 

bookjacket
Read The Introduction


website  

[jacket image]
Read an excerpt.


Beyond Words
Reading & Writing In A Visual Age

Photos that Changed the World


 

Color: Messages & Meanings: A Pantone Color Resource
Color: messages and meanings
Hand Books Press, 2006

cover of Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II













Defining Visual Rhetorics











The Language of Photography

Visual Communication
Images with Messages

Paul Martin Lester

The Reconfigured Eye
Visual Truth in the Post Photographic Era

Representation &
Photography
A Screen Ed Reader

Ways of Seeing

Images:
150 Years of Photography



 
   

 

other text recommendations



 

This site updated: 10/18/2008