1. Created by: Britney Murphy Visual Literacy Britney Murphy

2. What is Visual Literacy? Definition: The learned ability to interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages. Britney Murphy

3. Why is it Important to Know About Visual Literacy? Britney Murphy It is important to know about visual literacy so you can have an understanding and to help your students interpret art and visual media that they come in contact with. It introduces the process of analytical thinking about representation and meaning. It allows students to visualize while reading charts, graphs, pictures, and posters.

4. Why Use Visuals in Instruction? Britney Murphy Helps Provide a Concrete Referent for Ideas Make Abstract Ideas Concrete Motivate Learners Gives Direct Attention to Students Repeating of Information helps children gain the knowledge Recall Prior Learning Reduce Learning Effort Students may learn better visually Might be able to interpret things more if actually seen instead of read

5. Value Added to the Learning Process Britney Murphy Interest learning for children Increase retention of information and learning Aid communication Explain the relationships between certain things Clarify difficult and hard to understand information

6. Designed to Influence Children Learning Britney Murphy Simple Clear language/text Informative Show abstract idea into more of a realistic format Showing relationships between 2 or more things Use graphs such as pie charts, line graphs, or posters that help students visualize what they are leaning Illustrations that show one thing that can lead into another

7. 2 General Approaches to Teach Visual Literacy Britney Murphy Teaching by pictures, drawings, charts, graphs, posters, and cartoons Teaching by PowerPoint, Prezi, Or the Overhead Projector.

8. 6 Types of Visuals Britney Murphy Pictures - a photographic representation of a famous person like George Washington Drawings - student drawn sketch or diagram of a person or a place Charts - the water cycle or the food chain Graphs - bar graph, pictorial graph, circle graph, and line graph Posters - the food pyramid or the color wheel Cartoons - caricatures of real or fictional people, animals, and events

9. When Should You Use Presentation Software for Instruction? Britney Murphy An example of presentation software could be PowerPoint, Prezi, digital images, overhead projector, or printed visuals Most teacher would use this software when they are teaching a lesson or trying to get information to your students through learning

10. Qualities of an Essential Question Britney Murphy Answers cannot be found, they must be constructed They cast old knowledge, ideas, texts, in a new light They generate multiple answers and perspectives They generate more questions They lead to discovery and uncovering, rather than simply covering, a topic They are engagingly framed They are higher-order; they always take us to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation Students must go beyond the information given to develop their answers