Visual Literacy
Defined
 

Visual Literacy:
Readings
 

  Visual Literacy  
©2008 Frank W. Baker

 

• An American Century of Photography (teacher guide)
• DoubleTake Teacher Guide/Lesson Plans
• Teacher's Guide to Making Student Movies (Scholastic) 
• Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images
• Visual literacy resources (numerous)
• Visual studies wiki

• Analyzing Photographs From Theory to Practice
• Analyzing Visuals In Print (Grade 12, McDougal Littell)
• A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
• Cartoons For The Classroom
• Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
• NEW Digital manipulation of images: is seeing believing?
• Every Picture Has A Story:
  History Through Primary Sources (Smithsonian)
• Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide
• Great Depression, The New Deal and the Media
• Historical Literacy: the more you look, the more you see
• Images as Persuasion (other plans)
• Images In Action
• Images of The West
• Making Sense of Documentary Photography
• Media Analysis Tools (Library of Congress)
• Photography Changes What We Want  (Smithsonian)
• Photography Changes Who We Are (Smithsonian)
• NEW Picture This: Building Photo Based Writing Activities (NYT)
• Picture This: Looking & Telling- Take A Good Look
• Reading Media Photographs
• Reading the Visual Images in Black Ships and Samurai
• Reading Visual Images (several units)
              Reading Images: compositional analysis (worksheet)
• Re:View
• Teaching Educators About Media Project
• NEW Using Movies to Improve Visual Literacy
• Vid Kids
• Visuals In The News
• Visual literacy: ending hunger
• Visual Literacy Toolbox:   activity plans; online activities            
• A Visual Literacy Unit for Students in Years 7 and 8
• What Makes A Picture Perfect?