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Category Archives: Visual Literacy

Making connections and inferring through visual literacy

September 26, 2013

This video comes from Radiolab at New York Public Radio, WNYC 93.9 FM and AM820, wnyc.org which airs shows and podcasts on science, …

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Ridiculously Imaginative Playgrounds

June 12, 2012

  The Colossal website is a fantastic resource for all different kinds of art. This playground is just one of many I …

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Use Animated film “A lovecraft dream” as a writing prompt

May 17, 2012

A short film (about 6 minutes) by Leonardo Manna,  based on the real H.P.Lovecraft character and his nightmares. Appropriate for …

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Writing Captions for Photographs

May 7, 2012

Read the story that goes with the photograph and make up another suitable title. Use that idea for a caption. …

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Crane Accident: Spotting the doctored photo

May 7, 2012

The 2005 Crane Accident is a series of 11 photographs involving one small car and two large cranes is an excellent text to …

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Spreading the Love: poetry project

May 5, 2012

What if your whole class wrote annonymous poems and spread the love by leaving their letters all over the neighbourhood. …

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Authors Imply and Readers Infer

May 2, 2012

1. Any text is incomplete without the reader. In pairs, spend a minute or two discussing what this statement means. …

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Three Photographs/Three Words

May 1, 2012

Teacher notes:  The following lesson ideas incorporate reading expectations 1.5 and 1.8 for intermediate level students.  Three Photographs/Three Words Choose …

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Inferring from Political Cartoons

April 30, 2012

Choose a current political cartoon that will be relevant to your students but will be a little bit above their …

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Family Literacy Activities

April 21, 2012

Literacy Activities for the Whole Family         Play with words         Bake a favourite …

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