Visual Literacy
Defined
 

Visual Literacy:
Readings
 

  Visual Literacy  
©2008 Frank W. Baker

 

Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism Curriculum

• An American Century of Photography (teacher guide)
• DoubleTake Teacher Guide/Lesson Plans
• Teacher's Guide to Making Student Movies (Scholastic)
• Visual literacy exercises 
• Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images (Activity lesson plans)
• Visual literacy resources (numerous)
• Visual literacy unit for grades 7-8
• Visual studies wiki

• All the News That’s Fit to Click: Analyzing New York Times Design
• Analyzing Photographs From Theory to Practice
• Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
• Analyzing Visuals In Print (Grade 12, McDougal Littell)
• A Lens Into The Past  (Grades 3-4, ArtsEdge)
• A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
• The Art of Language: Visual Literacy & Descriptive Writing
• A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
• Cartoons For The Classroom
• CLICK: (Smithsonian Photography Initiative)
  Lesson 1 examines the role photographs play in representing ourselves and our communities.
  Lesson 2 asks students to explore the concept of celebrity and the role photography plays.
  Lesson 3 students closely examine four photos representing important steps in the history of the medium.
• Critical Lenses (New York Times)
• Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
• Development of Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacy (modules)
• Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography (Read, Write, Think)
• Digital manipulation of images: is seeing believing?
• Every Picture Has A Story:
  History Through Primary Sources (Smithsonian)
• Digital visual literacy modules
• Explaining The Image (worksheet)
• Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide 
• George Eastman Discovery Kits:
            African Americans: Black History through Photography
              Photographers of the American West
              Animation: Illusion of Motion
              The Civil War Through Photography
              George Eastman: Father of Popular Photography
              Photographs of the Great Depression
              Inventors in Imaging Technologies
              Lewis Hine: Immigration and the Progressive Era
              Beyond the Image: Depicting Native Americans
              Bringing the War Home: American Photography during World War II
              Shapes and Shelters: Architecture and Photography
• Great Depression, The New Deal and the Media
• Historical Literacy: the more you look, the more you see
• A House Divided: Civil War Photography
• How To Analyze A Photograph
• How to Analyze a Photograph 
• How to analyze images as text
• Images as Persuasion (other plans)
• Images In Action
• Images of The West
• Infographics
• Infographics: Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
• Investigating Images
• Making Sense of Documentary Photography
• Math & Photography
• Media Analysis Tools (Library of Congress)
• Media Literacy: The Big Picture
• The People's Choice: Digital Imagery and the Art of Persuasion
• Photo Ethics (Newseum)
• Photography: Photo Essay; Digital Storytelling (Adobe Youth Essentials)
• Photography Changes What We Want  (Smithsonian)
• Photography Changes Who We Are (Smithsonian)
• Picture This: Building Photo Based Writing Activities (NYT)
• Picture This: Looking & Telling- Take A Good Look
• Political Cartoons In The Classroom (Apple)
• Reading Editorial Cartoons (Scholastic)
• Reading Historical Photographs
• Reading Media Photographs
• Reading Pictures: A Text Set For Teaching Media Literacy
• Reading the Visual Images in Black Ships and Samurai
• Reading Visual Images (several units)
              Reading Images: compositional analysis (worksheet)
• Re:View
• SC Photo: School Curriculum For Photography
• Teaching Educators About Media Project
• Understanding Infographics
• Using Movies to Improve Visual Literacy
• Vid Kids
• Visuals In The News
• Visual literacy & media studies (Australia/curriculum)
• Visual literacy: ending hunger
• Visual Literacy: Primary Sources for The Classroom
• Visual Literacy Toolbox:   activity plans; online activities            
• A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
• Visual Storytelling: Telling A Story Through Photography
• War Image Analysis
• What Makes A Picture Perfect? 

• You Oughta Be in Pictures: An Introduction to Making Videos