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7.2.1 Independent Reading: Visuals

English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Types of visuals: road signs, photographs, billboards, flag, currency, posters
  • What visuals carry: stories, messages, feelings, relationships, mood
  • Interpreting forest and national visuals: predict, infer, connect, question

What you will be able to do

  • identify types of information conveyed by visuals for comprehension
  • interpret visuals for information
  • appreciate the importance of visual interpretation skills in different texts

Key questions

“Why are pictures and photographs important in written texts?”

Lessons

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  1. What different visuals tell you
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Road signs give rules, photos give mood and story, billboards persuade, the flag and currency speak for the nation.
  2. Interpret a visual; make a forest one
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Predict, infer and connect when you read a picture, then create a simple visual that argues for trees.