Reading as a Process

Cognitive Process
Decode symbols meaning

Process
look at a series symbols
meaning

Extract meaning from text

written or printed
 Reading as a Skill
Receptive Skill
Receive information

Productive Skill
Receive Transmit information
Requires Speaking Skill
pronounce words
 Readin
g
Process of constructing
meaning through the dynamic
interaction among:
(1) the reader's existing
knowledge;
(2) the information suggested by
the text being read; and
(3) the context of the reading
situation

(Wixson, Peters, Weber, & Roeber, 1987, citing the new

definition of reading
for Michigan).
 Art
• Art is something we do, a verb.
• Art is an expression of our thoughts,
emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is
even more personal than that: it’s about
sharing the way we experience the world,
which for many is an extension of personality.
 Art
• Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating
visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks),
expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual
ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated
for their beauty or emotional power.
• Art is commonly used to describe something
of beauty, or a skill which produces
an aesthetic result,
• Art requires thought - some kind of creative
impulse.
 Art
• Aryan root word
“AR” to join or to put
together.
• Latin terms
“ARS
”
 Art
Everything that is artificially
made or
composed by
man
Talent or
ability
 Art
• According to Leo Tolstoy
“Art is a means of union among all
men,
a means of communication.”

• According to Aristotle
“Art has no other end but itself. All
arts are patterned on nature. It is
 Art
also the right reason for making
things.”
 Literature
Music
Architecture

ART Dance
Painting
Sculpture Theater
 Prose

Literature

Drama Poetry
 Dance

Performing
Arts

Theater Music
 Drawing
Interior Printmaking
Design

Architecture Sculpture

Visual Arts
Filmmaking Ceramics
(Animation)
Comics Painting
Photography
 Importance of Visual Arts
1. Visual art is one of the universal languages
all human beings understand and use to
communicate.
2. We use visual art to express ourselves and
to
speak to others across time and place.
Human beings have an essential drive to
create and understand visual imagery.
3. Visual art makes a person and society
happier, more creative and less dogmatically
Importance of Visual Arts
rigid.
 Importance of Visual Arts
4. Visual art can help give context to a person
past or future. (But not all Art speaks to
everyone)
5. Visual art is Who you Are, Who you Want to
be and who the world will see you as. It isn't
static.
6. Visual art is a life spring of expression that
adds needed liveliness to a life's journey.
Importance of Visual Arts
7. Visual Art is everywhere. You may not
know
it but visual art is the means we
communicate, it is in the food you eat, the
clothes you wear, the road you pass on, the
car you ride on, the website you navigate, the
store you buy from, and practically anywhere
you set your eyes on
Types
Visual
Arts
 Fine Arts

Sculpture Painting Drawing

 Graphic Arts

Manuscript Illumination
Fine Arts

Book Illustration

Calligraphy

Architecture
Contemporary Arts Assemblage
Collage
Mixed Media
Conceptual Art

Installation
 Happenings
Contemporary Arts
Performance Art

Photography

Video Art

Animation (computer graphics)

 Contemporary
Arts

New
“Transitory
Environmental
or Land Art Forms”

Ice/ snow
Sculpture

Graffiti Art
 Function of Visual Arts
in the
society
1. Bring about change in the society.
2. Cross-cultural understanding
3. Improve community relationships
4. “Record” history
5. Look for creative solutions to society’s
problems