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• Title: Elementary Teachers' Instructional Practices Involving Graphical Representations (Report)
• Author : Journal of Visual Literacy
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 236 KB

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Becoming literate in the 21st Century means that students must acquire not only the traditional skill set needed to read printed texts but must also develop certain skills needed to read various forms of multimodal texts. Multimodal texts are those that communicate messages not only via the printed work but also through visual, graphical, electronic, and digital modes (Kress, 2003; 2008; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). As Moline (1995) explains, "In addition to the print media (books, newspapers, street maps), visual texts are widely used in the growing array of electronic media with which students need to be fa Blachowicz miliar in order to be fully literate, both at school and elsewhere" (p. 3). The demand for teachers to be knowledgeable about these new reading and writing skills will increase as the presence of electronic and digital forms becomes more customary (Leu, 2011; Unsworth, 2001). Presently, images, illustrations, and visual representations receive less attention than printed text as they relate to the creation of meaning in school (Arizpe & Styles, 2008; Kress, 2008; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). Further, content area texts and information books are becoming increasingly multimodal in their incorporation of images (Coleman & Dantzler, 2010; Martins, 2002; Moss, 2001 Walpole, 1998-99). Whether they are diagrams in a science text or computer generated graphics on a screen, visual representations carry and communicate messages, which can be analyzed and evaluated by a reader, thus contributing to the meaning-making related to the message. To inform efforts to work with teachers on graphical instruction, educators must have an understanding of what teachers are presently doing. The study described in this paper represents a starting point for the examination of the instructional practices, strategies, and knowledge base involving graphical representations of general elementary educators across the United States. This work provides insights into the role of visual literacy within elementary classrooms of today. The following research questions were addressed: 1) What is the overall use of graphical representations by elementary teachers (K-5)? 2) What is the frequency of use for different graphical representations? 3) What are teachers' instructional practices involving graphical representations and the frequency with which they are used?

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