What is Visual Literacy

In school, many children are given the unfortunate message that writing has value but drawing does not. Yet much of our daily world relies on communication of information by visual cues other than text. Discover how to teach students to ''read and write'' with visual information, from charts and maps to graphs, illustrations, time lines, and diagrams. The importance of learning how to teach visual literacy brilliantly unfolds in What Is Visual Literacy. Designed for Grades K-6, the importance of this provocative thinking applies across the curriculum and can be especially powerful when working with English langauge learners.