Transcript Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy
Raising the writing levels of Boys
in Year 4
Overview
•Large inner-city school in
Bordesley Green
•98% EAL
•Start school a lot below
average
•58% SATs results
•Labelled ‘Hard to shift!”
Aims
•Motivate, inspire, enthuse!
•Improve their writing by
motivating them write and want
to improve
•To raise self-confidence and
self-esteem
•To improve their speaking
and listening skills
Results
End of term
F
B
Pre-start
level
2b
2b
In
Is
A
D
2b
2b
2b
2a
2a
3c
3c
3c
2b
2a
Life before Visual literacy…
No because sometimes
I can’t think properly
No because my hand starts
to hurt and I don’t like literacy
Do you enjoy writing?
Why/why not?
Yes because
it keeps my brain working
No because my
hands ache
Life AFTER Visual literacy…
Yes, it helps you get
better at writing
Yes, because I am a
good writer
Do you enjoy writing?
Why/why not?
Yes because you
can get clever
Yes because you can put
your
Imagination on paper
Dvd cover
The March of the Penguins
Used it for:
• Different styles of poetry
• Acrostic poems
• Non-fiction writing
• Making a fact book to read to reception
children
The March of the Penguins
Techniques used:
• Sequencing slides
• Zones of relevance
• Non-fiction writing
• Fact files
• Researching
• Hotseating
• Philosophy for children (p4c)
The March of the Penguins
• Initially sceptical as thought they might not be
stimulating enough!
• How wrong could I be!
• Retained far more information about
penguins than I ever expected (even now!)
• A: “I liked March of the penguins
cos when they have a baby they
pass it to the mother and when it
be’s cold the dad keeps it in a
warm place.”
Penguin display
Teaching reception about
penguins!
The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant
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Sequencing
Hearts and minds
Diary entries
Philosophy for children (P4c)
Comparisons with the book
Zone of relevance
The Iron Giant
• Before Visual literacy:
“My character has a AK47 Gund he is
really Sad. Got a feather on his cloths.
He is very angry. Is gonna shoot
someone. Dark green head. Green and
dark black eyes.”
The Iron Giant
• AFTER Visual literacy:
“Wow! What a day! Mums at work so I could
stay up late as I can as I was watching t.v.
Suddenly the power of the t.v went off so then
I went outside to look. I carried on looking to
see what had happened. Then I saw a big
giant. I got scared as he was getting
electrocuted by the wires. Then I went to
switch off the electricity…I got really scared of
the giant he had a big ugly lump on his
head…”
Before…
…after!
Conclusions
• ALL the children seem to have an increased
motivation to Literacy
• Quickly become engrossed in an activity and
always on-task
• Improvements in:
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Speaking and listening
Inference and deduction
Group work
Note-taking, re-drafting etc.
Self-esteem
Whats next…
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“Hard to shift!”
Year 5: The Piano
Over the hedge: Year 4
Visual Literacy week
Continuing to motivate all the children in
the class with Visual literacy!
Zone of relevance