Janet L. Olson and Maren K. Olson
Language Arts teachers and Visual Arts teachers alike will find inspiration in this new edition of the highly successful resource for using the power of visual narrative to support all types of learners.
You will:
- Learn to recognize and value the unique strengths and challenges of the visual learner
- Build your practice with a variety of teaching strategies and activities appropriate for language arts, visual arts, and special education classrooms
- Gain new understanding of the educational culture, both historical and present day, that puts visual learners at a disadvantage
New to this edition: working with Middle School and High School students
“Olson has produced an excellent, research-based book that is both informative and practical, as a resource for improving instruction. Those of us who focus on language and literacy education, in particular, are reminded of the power of visual learning as a tool in itself and as a key support for other modes of learning.”
Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education Emerita
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The following example is student writing from the Characters section of Ch. 2: The Language Arts Program. Notice how the character development changes when the visual mode of learning is included as a complement to the verbal mode.
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