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Nicholas McGuinn, Editor; Amanda Naylor, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental education, underpinning the vital role the language arts play in expanding this engagement for a better future. Moving beyond the basic modalities of English, chapters written by an internationally…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Language Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach, Ecology
Hadjioannou, Xenia; Cappiello, Mary Ann; Bandré, Patricia; Burgess, Matthew; Crawford, Patricia; Dávila, Denise; Gardner, Roberta Price; Johnston, Kari; Lowery, Ruth; Stewart, Melissa – National Council of Teachers of English, 2023
Contemporary nonfiction for young people plays a crucial role in the reading and writing lives of K-12 students. It is a rich and compelling genre that supports students' development as critically, visually, and informationally literate 21st century thinkers and creators. Unlike many textbooks and materials written for online or print-based school…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Nonfiction, Literature, Teaching Methods
Elizabeth Baker; Beryl Exley; Linda-Dianne Willis; Lisbeth Kitson – English in Education, 2023
This study examines 12 lessons undertaken with a Year 5 English Language Arts elementary class where students are explicitly introduced to a grammar for critical visual literacy. The goal is to apprentice students into political participation by developing their skills for critically reviewing and redesigning visual texts on the school website.…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Visual Literacy, English, Language Arts
Daibao Guo; Erin E. Rich; Julianne M. Coleman – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2024
While visual literacy pedagogy in teacher preparation programs has been a recognized body of knowledge the past few decades, limited research centers upon secondary teachers who are responsible for integrating visual literacy into content instruction. This study explored how 32 secondary English language arts and social studies pre-service…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Visual Literacy
Pantaleo, Sylvia – Social Studies, 2021
Participation in a classroom-based study provided Grade 4 students with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal ensembles. Intentionally-designed instruction during the multifaceted research included a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Aesthetics
Barone, Diane; Barone, Rebecca – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2017
Fifth graders responded to a video of a picturebook,"The Red Tree" by Shaun Tan. They had not experienced explicit instruction in visual literacy and their responses served as a foundation for basic understanding of their analysis. We learned that they focused on four major areas: emotional aspects; visual qualities, summaries of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Childrens Literature
Karen Moynihan – English Journal, 2016
This article presents ways to incorporate the works of artist Edward Hopper in the ELA secondary classroom. Students analyze Hopper's paintings as a text and create their own responses in the form of poetry, short story, photography, and other visual media.
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Instruction, Art Education, Visual Aids
Smilan, Cathy – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
Visual literacy and the ability to think creatively are critical skills requisite to full participation and communication in the twenty-first century. Learning experiences that integrate studio-based inquiry and other academic concepts can develop discipline skills as well as communication skills of deciphering visual cues and de/re-constructing…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Creative Thinking, Inquiry, Art
Cook, Mike P.; Frey, Ryle – SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide teachers and students useful methods for utilizing the power of comic books as literacy sponsors in ELA classrooms. Given the continued boom in the popularity of comics in popular culture, this provides a relevant way to introduce students to visual and critical analysis. Engaging in meaningful analysis of…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Teaching Methods, Language Arts, Popular Culture
Walker, Nancy T.; Goff, Maria; Serafini, Frank W. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Framed in theories of multimodality and picture books, this interpretivist research examined teachers' use of visual literacy elements during one school year as they taught language arts and social studies in their upper elementary grade classrooms. The data, which included field notes, interviews, observations, classroom artifacts, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Visual Literacy, Curriculum Implementation
Williams, Heidi; Burns, Claudia; Daisey, Peggy – Grantee Submission, 2016
(Purpose) The purpose of this paper is to describe visual literacy and an adapted version of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) and its value to enhance students' inferential thinking. (Methodology) An example of a middle school VTS, art-integrated lesson is described as well as reflections of a middle school language arts teacher about what she…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
Gilbert, Chris – English Journal, 2013
The author critiques covers of "Ebony" and "GQ" magazines in order to expose race and class narratives, and he encourages teachers to help students to become more aware of the ways in which other images "connote cultural information." Because of the prevalence of images in contemporary society, it is imperative that…
Descriptors: Criticism, Periodicals, Visual Literacy, Race
Thomas, Angela Falter; Vannatta Reinhart, Rachel – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Because of the Common Core State Standards there is a renewed emphasis on the importance of visual literacies in today's classrooms. Students need prior knowledge before approaching these types of texts. This article describes the results of one 6th-grade language arts class's engagement in pre-reading prior to viewing a theatrical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, State Standards, Language Arts, Prior Learning
Brown, David W., Jr.; Albers, Peggy – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2014
How do fifth-grade students in a gifted class construct understandings of the opposite sex? In what ways do these constructions manifest in the visual texts created in literacy and language arts classrooms? This qualitative study integrated visual arts to understand how fifth-grade gifted students represented and perceived gender roles. Using…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 5, Academically Gifted, Qualitative Research
Gillenwater, Cary – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2014
This phenomenological case study attempts to understand the phenomenon of intertextuality of traditional novels and graphic novels, and how it may or may not contribute to transference of one mode of literacy to another. The study's sample was seven Grade 12 Advanced Placement English/language arts students and their teacher. I conducted my…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Case Studies, Advanced Placement Programs, Grade 12