CCSS for visual literacy & NES

Even though there is not direct guidelines on visual literacy on the Core Standards site, there is many ways that a teacher could go about introducing visual literacy, especially that of graphic novels. There is a few different sections, such as, Craft and Structure and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas where visual literacy could hold a place in a classroom. Visual literacy could be easily integrated into a lesson by a teacher by exploring how a play that was being performed or recorded or how it was structured, and how it differs from other forms of literacy that other mediums may not be able to provide in detail, content, and structure.  As far as the Integrated Knowledge and Ideas section, there is a definitely a place for visual literacy in this section as in some upper level grades the guidelines even suggest showing students a movie or recorded play, or even a live play experience that the students could use to be able to analyze different forms of literacy such as, plays videos, movies, and graphic noels. Students could also explore these mediums of literacy by creating their own form of visual literacy by creating a comic strip, making a video, or performing a play. Graphic novels also hold a place in visual literacy and could be explored in much of the same ways listed above!

The NES text had a lot of great information about how a teacher could use visual literacy in many different ways. My favorite part of the text was pointing out how useful it is in oral presentations. I think the delivery of a speech or lesson can rely heavily on what is going on behind the teacher, or in other words what they are showing to achieve the goal they have set for the lesson. I think oral presentations can evoke a lot more emotion and a lesson can be a lot more meaningful for the students if they are able to visualize how the lesson will apply to them. Visual literacy also is constantly used in schools to provide information for students about events that are taking place in the school, advocate for them to join different clubs, and in their phone and internet use; it is true, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this generation of students know that. I feel as though the NES did a great job of explaining this and it was wonderful to get to read more about visual literacy as I believe it was only taught to be in one classroom before college, and that was because my fourth grade teacher loved comic strips and would have us great ones of our own. My teacher then used his comics strips, and the ones students created messages, such as talking during an assembly makes you stick out like a sore thumb (he then had a visual comic that he drew with a bunch of regular thumbs and one was "sore" and had bandages on it).

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