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Students watch 22 000 hours of television before they finish high school. They spend only 12 500 hours in the classroom.http://gamepolitics.com/files/blogimages/kidwatchingtv.jpg
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Palm pilot
Light beer
Dr Pepper
The King of Pop
How many did you get correct?How did you know?
The nature of literacy is characterized by the theoretical lens that is used to examine it (Ruddell, Ruddell, & Singer, 1994).
Visual literacy
Visual images are fast becoming the most predominant form of communication.  Visual genres and mediums now dominate communication; photographs, television, film, video, the internet, cartoons, posters, t-shirts, comics, multi media presentations and computer simulations. Sankey, 2002.
Reading and Viewing:Readers and viewers make connections between their prior knowledge and the subject matter ofthe text
‘Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.’Jenkin, R. (2008) Visual literacy, Teaching and Learning, 30 July/August, pp.4-8
Visually vulnerable Victims of Text
Still ImagesStill images: are texts that are still (that is not moving or animated in anyway)
Illustrations
Paintings
Cartoon or comics
Collage
PhotographsColourhttp://library.creativecow.net/articles/cowdog/its_all_your_fault/angry-cat_large.jpg
Bland, N.(2007). When Henry caught imaginitis. Scholastic press. Lindfield, NSW.
TextureBaker, J.(1987). Where the forest meets the sea. Julia MacRae Books. London.
Baker, J.(1991). Window. Julia MacRae Books. London. 
Linehttp://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/i/Isabelle/24.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs17/f/2007/199/3/4/Shiny_Blue_angry_wolf_by_TheTyro.jpg
Shape and Formhttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2010/4/8/1270723251634/Angry-parent-and-baby-001.jpg
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Balance and Layouthttp://library.creativecow.net/articles/cowdog/its_all_your_fault/angry_person.jpg
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Time or spacehttp://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/Evolution-of-the-Household.html
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Reading and Viewing: Readers and viewers use a number of active comprehension strategies to interpret texts, including activating prior knowledge, predicting, questioning, identifying main ideas, inferring, monitoring, summarising and reflecting.
Moving images
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Audio Codes
http://www.filmeducation.org/thefoxandthechild/sights.html
Reading and Viewing:Comprehension involves drawing on knowledge of the subject matter and contextual cues tointerpret, infer from and evaluate texts in community contexts
Why should we incorporate visual literacy instruction in to the classroom?
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DinosaursDinosaurs are creatures that lived millions of years ago. some people say that crocodiles are dinosaurs  and they are also millions of years old. Some dinosaurs were vegetarian and some were meat eaters. They had sharp claws and teeth .Some dinosaurs were huge and some were the size of chickens. Researchers are not sure  what color dinosaurs were but some think they might have been as colorful as some of the birds that we have today.
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