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Does graphic material act as a good motivating stimulus? Does graphis material enhance text? I would have to agree with bothof these questions. All learners are different. For some reading the text is enough, but for others they are visual learners. the use of graphics enables some learners to have a visual while reading the text. Others learners may learn better from watching an animated version especially while learning about how something works. I think Mayer sumed it up well by saying ' that media environments so not cause learning, cognitive processing by the learner causes learning'. Graphic material on any text will help to give the learner a deeper look at the information and deeper understanding. I also think by using any graphic material is a great motivating tool. I have noticed this in my classroom. through the use of my visual literacy course and using different reding strategies, it has been interesting to see how much information learners get our of a visual stimulus.

Here is a powerpoint presentation that could be used with junior primary. They could also have a go at making one of there own by finding there own pictures or using the digital camera.



Here is an image that I downloaded from a camera

The sense of sight is extreamly important especially for those that are visual learners. The following articles are based on visual literacy. Visual literacy allows the reader to interpret and gaining meaning from 'reading' an image.

**[|Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective]** **[|Suzanne Stokes]** = [|Words with Pictures: The Role of Visual Literacy in Writing and its Implication for Schooling] = [|Elaine Millard Jackie Marsh]

[|Visual literacy and the classroom]

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