Blog #5 Common Core -Visual Literacy

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/

     First and foremost, the CCSS website does not have a visual literacy specific spot but that does not mean that there isn't standards for this type of literacy. Interestingly enough, the literacy for visual learning is mixed in with almost all other types of standards. Visual learning can come from and be used in reading literature, understanding informational texts, speaking and listening (producing healthy conversations within your classroom) and several other topics throughout English. 

    Teaching students how to effectively analyze visual literacy is very important for not only use in the classroom but for the rest of their lives. Being able to understand the meanings, messages, and values that are being displayed within visual types of literature stretches into things that are not just used in an academic setting such as media. I personally did not have a good teacher for teaching me how to read into media or into any sort of visual literacy and I really find it to be important as far as teaching in a secondary education situation. I was just taught to read a passage and respond, rather than to read into things such as media or images as find the underlying meanings, themes, purposes, or anything else that could bring a deeper and bigger meaning to whatever it was that was just read or looked at.