ELA Practice #6

This resource walks teachers through ways to teach students about images and how to analyze and interpret their meaning(s).

This short article provides several resources for teachers including examples, format criteria, and an assessment rubric.

Information is Beautiful is dedicated to making sense of the world with graphics and data-visuals. This site sets out to explain, distill and clarify. All visualizations are based on facts and data, and they are constantly updated, revised and revisioned.

This New York Times resource provides graphs, maps and charts--and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

This resource includes a collection of articles and resources connecting the classroom to the world.

This resource provides activities for teachers to use with young adolescents that inspire academic discourse.

This article presents three frameworks to use with students to guide critical analysis of visual texts.