Visual grammar provides a way to describe and communicate the features of an image. Close looking and thinking about the image helps build meaning.
This Post provides an updated Visual Grammar Guide that can be used as a teaching and learning tool for responding to images in picture books. The Visual Grammar Guide was presented to the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) via a Webinar on June 5, 2019.
Previous overviews of visual grammar / visual literacy are available via the Softlink Blog Exploring visual literacy with picture books and past Posts on the Library Owl Blog Visual Literacy – some examples, Visual Literacy using the CBCA Short list Picture Books, and Relationship between literary elements and verbal/visual details in picture books.
Hello! The visual grammar guide link doesn’t seem to be working. Are you able to send me a copy or a link to the guide? Thank you!
Hello Sally,
Thanks for your message, I have edited the Post and the link. Hopefully it will work now.
Kind regards
Josephine