Anne Burke and Shelley Stagg Peterson argue that "picture books offer a medium for teaching visual and critical literacy across the curriculum." To support this idea, they describe a multidisciplinary unit on World War II that pushes high school students to utilize visual and print literacies to analyze, comprehend, and relate to public events and…

Suggests that television's imaginative hold on its viewers is produced by its use of primal mythological stories and powerful ritual narratives. (MM)

Argues that video courses must teach students not only to make intelligent viewing choices but to sift truth from suggestion in commercials, to avoid mindless acceptance of television's versions of appropriate sex roles, and to examine the values promoted in television programs. Suggests a number of books for media study. (MM)

Provides topics and activities by which English teachers can make their students visually literate and capable of critical television viewing. (RL)

An argument for increased attention to visual literacy, both as a research topic and in the classroom. (RL)

Presents an interpretation of the history of the development of visual and verbal language, and argues for the place of electronic technologies of visual and oral languages in the language arts curriculum. (DF)

Elaborates some strategies for incorporating soap opera into a composition course for remedial English students. Approach provides an instructional uniformity--everyone will be writing on the same subject matter; and plot, narrative, characterization, structure, etc. can be discussed and essay topics developed. (NKA)