24 Educational iPad Apps for Kids in Reading & Writing | Integrating Technology in Education | GSHP eLearning. BBC - KS1 Bitesize - Literacy. Children's Poetry Archive. Storytelling. Visual Literacy Activities with Online Resources. Last week I talked about visual literacy in Visual Literacy Activities with Children's Picture Books. I suggested children's picture books make a natural place to start teaching kids about visual literacy. Here are some online resources I've found that also support visual literacy. Almost any website can be examined from the perspective of its visual communications. Encourage your kids to become aware of what's behind the type and placement of images, choice and size of font, subheadings, flow of one chunk of text to another, colours etc. This helps them not only to develop visual literacy skills they can use in their own projects, but also to become more media savvy as consumers.
Here are particular websites that I think are stand-outs in terms of visual literacy possibilities for kids: At Howtoons, you'll find instructions on how to build all sorts of things. Your teens might be interested in Clean Up Your Mess which explains visual design beautifully. Magic Tree House. Funny poetry for children. Storynory, Free Audio Stories for Kids. Story Starters | Scholastic.com | GSHP eLearning. WordGirl | PBS Kids | GSHP eLearning. Children's Books and Book Club. Five Card Story: Let the Games Begin! Five Card Story: Let the Games Begin! Stories: prev | random | next a Five Card Flickr story by Stacey G created Nov 29 2011, 03:26:09 am. Create a new one! Flickr photo credits: (1) snbeach (2) scmorg (3) cogdogblog (4) cogdogblog (5) cogdogblog about this story The little penguin, Bubbles was alone one day when a bird landed beside him, They were warned to play at their own risk.... so they decided to take a journey....
Share this story permalink to story: other stories made from the same cards Let the Games Begin! Copy/Paste Story Click once to select, then copy and paste HTML to your own blog/website. create a different story from these same cards Do you have another interpretation of the story behind these pictures? ABC Spy | Playful learning.