Visual Literacy in the Classroom

In the Common Core State Standards, there was not much on visual literacy. Although there is a small section for it, it is not as big of a deal as other standards which I think is whack. Visual literacy is so important and needs to be included in the classrooms a lot more. It is not only something fun for the classroom, but it also is such a different way to interpret information in reading that students would benefit from! The book talked a lot about visual literacy in the media which I thought was interesting. It talked about how it is used in commercials and other types of the media for different ads and whatnot. I think it would be cool to teach more of that in the classroom. It’s interesting to see how different corporations and companies use visual literacy to persuade people to buy products. The different colors they use, the fonts they use, the type of wordings they choose, all of it is important in creating visual literacy. These different techniques would do the classroom and the students well because I think that it would be a different type of learning in the classroom and a different type of understanding in literature. We need to step out of that comfort zone in order to learn! Stepping out of the comfort zone helps everyone grow, and I think including more diverse visual literacy will help in that category.