Elementary school children of migrant farm workers were provided with cameras, film and guidance in their usage during a six-week program to find out if encouraging visual literacy would increase traditional language skills. Children in such experimental groups had better language facility and increased their reading ability more than children in control classroom with traditional book-centered reading programs. (Appendices include the following articles: An analysis of Visual Experience; Visual Literacy - A Review of Cognitive and Affective Learning Elements; Nine Visual Literacy Propositions and Some Related Research; and A Hierarchy of Visual Skills). (RH)