Discusses teaching visual literacy by teaching students how to decode advertising images, thus enabling them to move away from being passive receivers of messages to active unravelers. Shows how teachers can use concepts from semiotics to deconstruct advertising messages. (SR)

Presents materials in the ERIC database on concrete poetry--poetry that juxtaposes the words with the physical dimensions of the text on the page. (SRT)

Presents a visual literacy approach for limited-English-speaking students that incorporates both language and nonverbal thought processes. Describes how students take photographic essays, reconstruct the developed pictures using the visual framework of semantic maps, and write essays based on the photographs. (RS)

Details a case study of a young adult who, although virtually illiterate, learned to compensate for his reading disability and earn several college degrees. (FL)