Teaching Viewing and Visual Texts
Primary
Format: 168 pp book
ISBN: 1863662863
Publisher: Curriculum Corporation 1996
Audience: Teacher resource
Price: $35.90
Teaching Viewing and Visual Texts develops students' understanding of the 'how and why' of visual language and communication.
It provides practical suggestions for teaching visual texts and developing students' visual language skills through classroom units, with suggested learning outcomes and activities relating to visual symbols, comic strips, headlines and advertising, among others.
Nan Johnston
Teaching Viewing and Visual Texts: Primary English Curriculum and Teaching Program is a book for all teachers: those who are in the early stages of exploring teaching viewing and those experienced teachers of viewing who are in need of fresh ideas.
The book has been written in three parts.
Part 1: The place of viewing in English is an introduction to teaching viewing and I urge you to spend some time reading this section before going to the activity section. You will find information about the importance of visual texts, viewing and the English statement and profile, a framework for thinking about visual language, planning a learning program, assessing students` progress and resources. A further section on teacher and classroom resources can be found at the back of the book.
Parts 2 and 3 describe a number of activities for lower primary classed (part 2) and upper primary students (part 3). The authors have used a spiral curriculum approach which `recognises that students` understanding of a concept is progressively deepened and extended by returning to the concept and exploring it further at different stages`. Student work samples and transcripts which illustrate aspects of assessment are other useful features of these sections.
The authors provide a useful glossary of terminology of concepts and technical terms. There is also a companion book for secondary teachers.
* Reproduced with permission
