Visual Literacy: Reading, Thinking, and Communicating with Visuals - Hardcover

by Mark Newman (Author), Donna Ogle (Author)

The book explains how and why visual literacy can help improve learning for all students. It defines visual literacy and discusses how it works. It shows how the subjective, incomplete nature of visuals can be used to advantage in the classroom. Visual Literacy provides an array of classroom strategies and activities.

Author Biography

Mark Newman is Professor of Social Studies Education at National College of Education, National Louis University. He has a Ph.D. in History from UCLA and has written articles and books, and edited journals on primary sources, geography, and visual culture. Newman was co-director on five National Endowment for the Humanities grants and director of a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources project. Donna Ogle is Professor Emeritus of Language and Literacy at National College of Education, National Louis University. Her research and school-based work focuses around reading and learning with informational texts in content areas. Donna has served as President of the International Reading (now Literacy) Association, is a member of the ILA Research Panel, and consultant to the Terra Foundation for American Art Project using art in integrated instructional units.