The document discusses visual literacy and provides resources to help develop visual literacy skills. It defines visual literacy as having four components: code breaker, meaning maker, text user, and text analyst. As visual forms of communication become more prevalent, it is important for students to learn how to think critically about visual information. However, few schools currently have an explicit curriculum to teach these skills. The document then provides several websites and resources from museums, government education departments, and publishers that offer classroom materials and information related to visual literacy.

1. Visual Literacy Test

3. 1. Palm Pilot

5. 2. Light Beer

7. 3. Dandy Lions

9. 4. Assaulted Peanut

11. 5. Egg Plant

13. 6. Doctor Pepper

15. 7. Tap Dancers

17. 8. The King of Pop

19. 9. Ipod

21. 10. Knight Mare

23. 11. Gator-Aide

25. 12. Hole Milk

26. Done- How many did you get correct?

27. How did you know? The nature of literacy is characterized by the theoretical lens that is used to examine it (Ruddell, Ruddell, & Singer, 1994).

28. Code breaker –to crack the code of the written spoken and visual text, determine how it works and what are its patterns and conventions. Meaning-maker – resources which enable the reader to access the literal or implied meaning of the text, and utilise his/her socio-cultural background to make meaning. Text user – resources which enable the reader to determine and fulfil their role in using the text. Text analyst – resources which enable the reader to critically analyse the construction of the text in terms of the author’s intentions, ideologies, inclusions and omissions.

29. Visual images are fast becoming the most predominant form of communication. Visual genres and mediums now dominate communication; photographs, television, film, video, the internet, cartoons, posters, t-shirts, comics, multi media presentations and computer simulations. Sankey, 2002.

30. ‘ Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.’ Jenkin, R. (2008) Visual literacy, Teaching and Learning , 30 July/August, pp.4-8

31. Visual Literacy Resources Classroom Resources National Museum of Australia Classroom Resources http://www.nma.gov.au/education/school_resources/ Kids book Zone http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bookzone/vislit.html Tasmanian Department of Education http://www.education.tas.gov.au/curriculum/standards/english/english/teachers/ideas/vislit Australian Children’s Television Foundation http://www.actf.com.au/learning_centre/title_pages/lia_tp.php Western Australia Department of Education http://det.wa.gov.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/classroom/picturebooks/ Webquest Direct http://portals.aisnsw.edu.au/literacy/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=381 Research and Theory Considering Visual Literacy When Designing Instruction http://www.usq.edu.au/users/sankey/Resources/article0602.pdf N.S.W Education and Training http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/rabbits/resources.htm EDNA http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages/visuallit AIS Literacy Website http://portals.aisnsw.edu.au/literacy/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=381

32. Publishers Penguin books http://www.penguin.com.au/PUFFIN/teachers/teachers.htm New Frontier Publishing http://www.newfrontier.com.au/resources.htm Walker Books http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Teachers/Classroom-Ideas Wilkins Farago http://www.wilkinsfarago.com.au/teachers.html Usborne Children’s books http://www.usborne.com/usborne-for-schools/teachers-notes.aspx CEO http://www.ceosyd.catholic.edu.au/cms/Jahia/site/curriculumonline/pid/579 K-8 Visual Literacy http://k-8visual.info/ International Visual Literacy Association http://www.ivla.org/resources.htm University of North Carolina http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/675 Centre for Media Literacy http://www.medialit.org/ Big Universe http://www.biguniverse.com/