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- Schools
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 17
- Vietnam requires nine years of schooling. Although it is a relatively poor country, the literacy rate for adults is reported to be over 90 percent.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Media Literacy
- How do you know if something is true? How can you figure out if someone is trying to influence or sell to you? Put yourself in their shoes and consider the source! Check out this selection of websites from our Best of the Web.
- Format: bibliography/help
- It's an ad!
- How do marketers target kids — and how can we teach kids to know the difference between advertising and fact? These websites provide strategies to build critical thinking skills for media literate kids.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Two school boys ask a woman tourist in Hue to help them with English homework
- Two school boys ask a woman tourist visiting Hué to help them with their English homework. All three wear white T-shirts and are sitting in white plastic chairs on a tiled veranda outside a cafe or hotel. The foreign tourist wears dark sunglasses and her...
- Format: image/photograph
- Running record form
- Blank running record form for use in reading assessment.
- Format: document
- Three school girls in uniforms on road between Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City
- Three girls in matching school clothes walk along a road between Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City. They all wear blue pants, white blouses, cloth sunhats, and backpacks. A cement building foundation and some grave headstones can be seen off the road on the left....
- Format: image/photograph
- Finding hidden messages in advertising
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.3
- In this lesson for grade six, students will look for hidden messages in magazine advertisements and will create their own ads with hidden messages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Dance Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Lines of children in uniforms walk out of school ground in Danang
- This elevated view shows lines of children in uniforms walking out of a school ground in Danang. Children are filing out of the large school building in the back and past a cement wall in the front. They all wear dark pants, white shirts, and cloth hats. Women...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Suffrage Amendment
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.7
- Amendment to the North Carolina state constitution, passed 1899, adding a literacy test and a poll tax requirement for voting but a "grandfather clause" that allowed the requirements to be used specifically to disfranchise blacks. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: constitution
- Mapping HIV infection in Africa
- Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- By Bobby Hobgood and David Walbert.
- Information literacy: not just for students
- Good Internet research skills are important for teachers, too. This article provides an introduction to "information literacy" concepts and a list of references for teachers and media specialists.
- Format: article
- By Diane Kester.
- Photo comparison: Focus on geography
- A worksheet for students to use when comparing photographs, focusing on information about the population of the region in which they were taken.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Arts of persuasion
- Strategies for teaching middle school students to think critically, analyze persuasive arguments, and use speaking and writing to persuade others.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Resources for looking at art
- A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Photo analysis: Focus on carpet weaving
- A worksheet for students to use when analyzing photographs of carpet weaving.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
- Photo analysis: Focus on world pottery traditions
- A worksheet for students to use when analyzing photographs of pottery-making.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
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