Summary:Visual literacy though once targeted a select audience of preschoolers and kindergartners, has now broadened it's horizon as it targets all readers in a new way. The focus of visual literacy is to be able to interpret the meaning an author portrays through the visual art. Dual text is a move complex version of this relationship between the literacy of text and literacy of visuals. Graphic novels use these elements together, and without one of the elements, the work would then be incomplete.
Theme: Alphabets of visual literacy
The chapter suggest the ability to read and comprehend matters strongly suggest the need to decode images to be a basic core of literacy. This literacy moves through three stages; the first stage is observation and critical thinking, second inference and generalization to the last stage of creative reflection and insight. This type of literacy is common in the higher grade of social studies where political cartoons are analyzed and decoded.
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