eCLASS

Exploring Visual Literacy

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The average American teenager now devotes almost seven hours
a day to screen time, marinating in visual images. But does
immersion equal understanding? Staring is not necessarily
thinking. Kids need to be able to actively read and interpret
pictures or paintings just as well as prose text.
Harvey Smokey Daniels

Strategy
Reading a Visual Image

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Ask the Experts!

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Double Date Text Rendering Protocol
Purpose: To collaboratively construct meaning, clarify
expand our thinking about a text or
document
Round One:

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Read and Summarize selected text

Partner A-

Summarizes content under the subheading

Partner BListens
Fill in omissions
Relate to prior knowledge
Rotate Roles throughout the article.
Round Two:

Analyze New Information

Pair with another couple from across the room.

As a team, review the information from the article and
culminating idea about Visual Literacy.

develop a

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What do you notice about
Setting-objects, landscape, weather, light, buildings,
foreground, background, edges
People- clothes, holding, facial expressions, feelings,
personality, jobs, importance, relationships
Actions/Activities- whats happening, whos doing it, who
is active vs. inactive, goals, emotions, motivations
What questions do you have as you look at this image?

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Reflecting on the
Strategy
How can Reading a Visual Image help students be
successful answering open constructive response
questions and exceeding on GA Milestones?

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Observation

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Observation Protocol

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Observation Groups

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Debriefing the Observation
Visual Literacy Padlet
The K-5 Perspective

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Using Unit Guides and AKS

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Picture Quality

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Online Research Library

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Planning Template
Grade Level____ Nine Weeks _____________
Content/Topic: _______________________________

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Illustration 3

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Guiding Questions
Setting-objects, landscape, weather, light, buildings, foreground, background, edges
People- clothes, holding, facial expressions, feelings, personality, jobs, importance, relationships
Actions/Activities- whats happening, whos doing it, who is active vs. inactive, goals, emotions, motivations
What questions do you have as you look at this image?

Playing in the
SANDBOX
Using Visual Literacy
to Create Discussions
and Content

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Making a Visual Literacy PowerPoint

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eCLASS C&I Tools: AKA STUFF
Uploading Your Visual Literacy PowerPoint to
the Grade Level Sandbox

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eCLASS C&I Tools: AKA STUFF
Creating a Discussion Using a Visual Literacy PowerPoint
1. Save AS a jpeg File
2. Rename each jpeg File

3. Upload

jpeg Files

4. Construct a

Discussion Question for each jpeg File

5. Add release conditions

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eCLASS C&I Tools: AKA STUFF
Using Video Note to Record Oral Responses

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eCLASS C&I Tools: AKA STUFF

Creating Content and Managing Files Using

Visual Literacy
Using Thinglink and Padlet
Create Accounts
Up Load jpeg
Create Activity Link in Sandbox

Draft vs. Published

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Standards

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Collaboration &
Reflection
Question & Answer

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What did you find striking about what you learned
today?
What is your implementation take away from today?
How will you share your experience with others at
your school?
What are my next steps?
What challenges do you anticipate in
implementation?

Thank You for Learning

Alongside Us Today!
~The Benefield Team