(Info)Graphically Inclined: A framework of infographic learning. (3rd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Jennifer M.; Robertson, Marla K.
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 74:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 439
• Page End: 449
• Publication Date: 2021-01-03
• Subjects: Comprehension -- Instructional strategies; methods and materials -- Visual literacy < Digital/media literacies -- Children's literature -- Nonfiction -- Informational text < Strategies -- methods -- and materials -- Instructional strategies -- Teaching strategies < Strategies -- methods -- and materials -- Text features -- Text structure < Comprehension -- Depth of (higher level -- literal level -- etc.) < Comprehension -- Instructional models < Strategies -- methods -- and materials; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1966
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: Infographics are appearing in children's magazines, picture books, and informational texts. Understanding, and ultimately creating, these complex visual representations of information or data requires higher level thinking skills to analyze and understand how the text and graphics work together to convey meaning. The authors provide a framework for infographic exploration, investigation, creation, and integration into larger writing pieces. Each phase of the framework includes specific considerations to assist teachers in scaffolding their students' infographic learning. Providing students with support through exposure to many types of infographics and modeling infographic interpretation prepares students to critically examine and use infographics as they encounter them both in and out of school.