Visual Devices

Tips

Why Use Visual Devices

Visual Devices feature seventeen different types of visual texts. Step-by-step guided instruction, colorful and engaging examples, and opportunities for independent student work will enable students to master visual literacy for life.

How to Use Visual Devices

is a handy reference tool that explains the easy three-step process to teach all the Visual Devices lessons.

Resources That Accompany each Visual Device

• Teacher Lesson Plan
• Introduce and Teach projectable
• Guided Practice projectable
• Apply the Skill worksheet

Step 1: Introduce and Teach

Use an engaging model to introduce and define the featured visual text and identify its basic components.

Step 2: Guided Practice

Guide students through analyzing and applying the visual text's features as the class collaborates on building a version of the text with step-by-step teacher-led instructions.

Step 3: Apply the Skill

GIve students the opportunity to apply what they have learned to independent creation of a visual text, either on their own or as a group.

Other Resources for Informational Texts

• Shared Reading nonfiction books ensure early readers work with informational texts.
• Our Close Reading Packs contain a large selection of informational text to support reading multiple, short texts closely.
• Visual Devices feature explicit instruction on text elements, such as graphs, charts, maps, schedules, or other visual texts.
• Content Area Reading organizes leveled books into featured groups of common content area topics.