Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years

Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years
Rod Quin
Middle years teacher resource

1 86366 742 3 | SCIS no: 1208990 | 104 pp

Reading the Visuals in the Middle Years provides teachers with strategies for developing students' understanding of viewing and visual texts. Many important viewing concepts and skills can be taught by asking students to think about the uses of visual language in the world around them and through the use of still images.

The book features five sections:
Section 1: Exploring visual language – signs and symbols, logos and comics
Section 2: Body language – facial expression, gesture and physical appearance
Section 3: Visual language, attitudes and values – fashion, customs and stereotypes
Section 4: Technical elements – framing, lighting and composition
Section 5: Visual texts – film, advertising and web pages.

Each section is divided into a number of units. Each unit consists of:
• Key concepts – a short summary of the key understandings that form the focus of the unit
• Teaching the visuals – an explanation of concepts and skills, and suggestions for explaining these to students
• Now try this – student activities and accompanying reproducible activity sheets.