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Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy. Raising the writing levels of Boys in Year 4. Overview. Large inner-city school in Bordesley Green 98% EAL Start school a lot below average 58% SATs results Labelled ‘Hard to shift!”. Aims. Motivate, inspire, enthuse!

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Visual Literacy

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  1. Visual Literacy Raising the writing levels of Boys in Year 4

  2. Overview Large inner-city school in Bordesley Green 98% EAL Start school a lot below average 58% SATs results Labelled ‘Hard to shift!”

  3. Aims Motivate, inspire, enthuse! Improve their writing by motivating them write and want to improve To raise self-confidence and self-esteem To improve their speaking and listening skills

  4. Results

  5. Life before Visual literacy… No because sometimes I can’t think properly No because my hand starts to hurt and I don’t like literacy Do you enjoy writing? Why/why not? Yes because it keeps my brain working No because my hands ache

  6. Life AFTER Visual literacy… Yes, it helps you get better at writing Yes, because I am a good writer Do you enjoy writing? Why/why not? Yes because you can get clever Yes because you can put your Imagination on paper

  7. Dvd cover

  8. The March of the Penguins Used it for: • Different styles of poetry • Acrostic poems • Non-fiction writing • Making a fact book to read to reception children

  9. The March of the Penguins Techniques used: • Sequencing slides • Zones of relevance • Non-fiction writing • Fact files • Researching • Hotseating • Philosophy for children (p4c)

  10. The March of the Penguins • Initially sceptical as thought they might not be stimulating enough! • How wrong could I be! • Retained far more information about penguins than I ever expected (even now!) • A: “I liked March of the penguins cos when they have a baby they pass it to the mother and when it be’s cold the dad keeps it in a warm place.”

  11. Penguin display

  12. Teaching reception about penguins!

  13. The Iron Giant

  14. The Iron Giant • Sequencing • Hearts and minds • Diary entries • Philosophy for children (P4c) • Comparisons with the book • Zone of relevance

  15. The Iron Giant • Before Visual literacy: “My character has a AK47 Gund he is really Sad. Got a feather on his cloths. He is very angry. Is gonna shoot someone. Dark green head. Green and dark black eyes.”

  16. The Iron Giant • AFTER Visual literacy: “Wow! What a day! Mums at work so I could stay up late as I can as I was watching t.v. Suddenly the power of the t.v went off so then I went outside to look. I carried on looking to see what had happened. Then I saw a big giant. I got scared as he was getting electrocuted by the wires. Then I went to switch off the electricity…I got really scared of the giant he had a big ugly lump on his head…”

  17. Before…

  18. …after!

  19. Conclusions • ALL the children seem to have an increased motivation to Literacy • Quickly become engrossed in an activity and always on-task • Improvements in: • Speaking and listening • Inference and deduction • Group work • Note-taking, re-drafting etc. • Self-esteem

  20. Whats next… • “Hard to shift!” • Year 5: The Piano • Over the hedge: Year 4 • Visual Literacy week • Continuing to motivate all the children in the class with Visual literacy!

  21. Zone of relevance

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