Combining Visual Literacy, Text Understanding, and Writing for Culturally Diverse Students.

Sinatra, Richard; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Combining Visual Literacy, Text Understanding, and Writing for Culturally Diverse Students.

Sinatra, Richard; And Others

Journal of Reading, v33 n8 p612-17 May 1990

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)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Junior High Schools, Limited English Speaking, Middle Schools, Minority Groups, Photography, Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods, Visual Literacy, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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