Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.5A Grade 4 CPI 2

 

Standard: 3.5 - Viewing and Media Literacy

 

Strand: A - Constructing Meaning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will respond to and evaluate the use of illustrations to support text.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       After viewing a film or video, students write journal entries and draw pictures in response to what they have seen. Their journal entries, which they will share with classmates, may include a summary of the story as well as their thoughts and feelings about it. Students then meet in pairs to share what they have written and drawn and to identify information and/or ideas that they learned as a result of sharing.

 

·       After reading several books or stories by an author/illustrator (e.g., Eric Carle, Chris van Ahlsburg, or Roy Gerard), students brainstorm with the teacher the defining characteristics of the illustrator’s work. These ideas, recorded on the board, serve as the basis for a discussion of how the illustrator used pictures to support the text.

 

·       Students compare current magazines, including Time, People, Ebony, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, to note the types of advertising in each. Students make a chart of the advertising features in each periodical, including object or service being promoted, type of appeal made, proportion of art to words, image (visual and verbal) presented, and vocabulary used. Students then write an explanation of differences between the types of advertisements in the magazines.