Title: A quick quiz
1A quick quiz
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STEP STEP PETS
The CARPET SWEEP
2Reading and viewing across stages and KLA
3Focus
- Link from research on visual literacy
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- To Syllabus documents
- To practical in class activity
4Key points
- Images have a semiotic system and grammar - the
choices construct meanings - versions of
reality - Visual grammar (K v L 1996 style) runs parallel
to verbal grammar - Words rely on logic of time and sequence and
images rely on space and simultaneity
5Time and sequence
- The man wobbled on a board while juggling rings
and keeping a box balanced on a ball on top of
his head as a bee flew through the rings
Space and simultaneity
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7" children actively experiment with the
representational resources of word and image, and
with the ways in which they can be combined.
Their drawings are not just illustrations of a
verbal text, not just 'creative embellishment'
they are part of a 'multimodally' conceived text,
a semiotic interplay in which each mode, the
verbal and the visual, is given a defined and
equal role to play." Kress and van Leeuwen p118
8Theory of semiotic systems( how we make meaning)
- Remember theory from writing lectures three
metafunctions in communication (ideational,
interpersonal and textual) which are realised in
the register variables of field, tenor and mode. - This theory is behind the English K-6 syllabus
but the language it is expressed in is
traditional grammar.
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10Meaning for action or classification
- Narrative patterns serve to represent unfolding
actions and events, processes of change,
transitory spatial arrangements. They involve
participants doing something to or for another.
- Conceptual patterns represent participants in
terms of their class (classificatory), structure
(analytical) or meaning (symbolical).
The cat is chasing the mouse. My netball team has
nine players in it. Four girls are really tall
and two are short and three are medium height.
Thinking moment - how would you represent these
statements in images?
11What metalanguage do we have?
Interactive
12What metalanguage is in the K-6 English syllabus?
13what is the motivation to use this metalanguage
in the classroom?
- We are working towards building up an explicit
metasemiotic knowledge base. - Why? Because children need to move
- from the informal to the
- systematic, from concrete to
- abstract understandings of
- the world, from the spoken
- to the written.
14Life cycles
15Using visual literacy in the stage 3 classroom
context - learning to view
- The class is studying life cycles in Science.
They are to write an explanation based on a range
of sources.
Half the class is given the image and they are to
represent the information in terms of a graphic
organiser of factual information and then write
it up as an explanation of the life cycle.
The other half of the class is given a text
explanation of the life cycle of frogs. They are
to convert the information using a graphic
organiser into an image that represents key
points.
Frogs
16glossary
- Graphic organisers visual means of representing
written information in logical patterns
Venn compare and contrast
Topic sentence and facts
Cycle format
fact
fact
topic
topic
fact
fact
fact
17Narrative as action in material events
- Transactional an action carried out on
something visible (a goal) seen in vector lines
from actor towards goal
18Conceptual images
- Classification by relationship or taxonomy
- Overt if a superordinate or category label is
given
19Covert if no category label is given
Netball teams
tigers
pumas
tabbycats
need to have equivalence in size, orientation to
viewer and objectivity
20Analytical images
- Images that show part whole relationships
- If labelled then structured analytical
- The whole is the carrier
- and the parts the
- possessive attributes,
- e.g. maps
21Suggestive
- Symbolism is carried within the image and often
the detail of the image is de-emphasised to
create a mood the equivalent of metaphor in
written text
22Using visual literacy in the stage 3 classroom
context - learning about viewing
- Text analyst role in another lesson using the
same image students are asked to discuss the
image in terms of visual grammar resources. Which
visual strategies has the illustrator chosen to
represent the life of frogs? (Think social
purpose) - classification (write up as overt taxonomy)
- analytical (write up as carrier attributes)
- symbolic (write up as list of suggestive
attributes) - transactional processes (write up as list of
actions)
23Interactive structures
- visual resources construct the nature of
relationships between viewers and what is viewed. - contact
- social distance
- attitude
- power
- realism
- coding orientation
24Coding orientation - what counts as real
- Naturalistic
- Schematised
- abstract
25Learning about evaporation
26Using visual literacy in the stage 2 classroom
context - learning about viewing
- Text analyst role in a science lesson students
are asked to categorise the images in terms of
visual grammar resources. - Attitude frontal angle, closely involved
- Social distance close up, the hand could be
ours - Power high angle
- Coding orientation naturalistic
27Using visual literacy in the stage 2 classroom
context - learning about viewing
- How could students transform the text to be more
scientific and less participatory? - Students are to discuss what effect the images
had on their appreciation of the topic in terms
of engagement, links to their own lives and
understanding of scientific concepts. - Students are to redesign the text changing the
level of coding from naturalistic to schematic or
abstract.
28Compositional structures
- are concerned with the distribution of the
information value or relative emphasis among
elements of the text and image. - information value
- framing
- Salience
29The reading path
- The way the eye moves around the page
- It starts at the point on the page where the eye
is drawn to most - Therefore framing and salience are very
important when planning text layout
30Using visual literacy in the stage 3 classroom
context - learning to view for information
What is the reading path of this text? Give
students a copy on which they number the 7 images
in order of their importance and reading logic
related to the main topic. They must justify
their reasons.
31Annotating images
- Use text boxes to identify the visual resource
used and comment on how it creates meaning - Use arrows to connect the boxes to the element in
the image you are naming - Ensure you annotate elements from all three
strands of meaning making resources in the
grammar. - This work is done to prepare for the way in which
you would teach the text. It is like showing your
working out in maths.
32Location stream where prawn was caught like
being there
Realism real photo image gives 3D depth, detail
and true colour like seeing it
Size hands used to show relative size like
holding it
Narrative transactional actional a human is
holding the prawn
Naturalistic the image is as close to real as
possible not abstract concept
Salience hands most salient as human element
then prawn reading path
Framing clean cut around image separates it
from other text to focus attention
33Different image for a different teaching purpose
so different resources are used to create
different meanings
What do I need to teach about reading this image?
34What is the difference?