Includes CD-Rom Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children′s experience of texts is no longer limited to words on printed pages - their reading

Includes CD-Rom Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children′s experience of texts is no longer limited to words on printed pages - their reading

The visual plays a central role in multimediated, computerized culture. The question is: how can we exploit the intersections between the visual and the verbal

In this book, a teacher/writer/cartoonist provides tools for helping students write about people, places, events, and even abstractions so that their readers ca