Raising a Reader - Visual Literacy Inquiry

Our Visual Inquiry learning/ reading has inspired us to create our own zines. 

This is us planning what we will include. 

We have stumbled across a great article in the New York Times, By Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, "How to Raise a Reader." This article has tips for parents about how to raise a reader at every age and stage.  

Some key points:

• Read throughout the day 
• When reading with kids, introduce your own preferences
• Respect the child's preferences
• Choose a range of books/ texts
• Don't make reading work, reading is fun!
• Format does not matter- comics can help students become avid readers
• A book about a computer game is still reading
• Some kids prefer non-fiction

We are all very excited about our ongoing Visual Literacy Inquiry. We have been reading a range of texts that have visual images or diagrams. 

We’ve been working on our reading comprehension skills, using some exciting comic and graphic novels stories. We are being reading detectives and learning to read both the words and the pictures to gather information. We are making predictions about what characters will do next, and inferring the reasons for their actions from the information we have. We are practising saying why we think these things by referring to the text for evidence.