Description
What our Visual Multimedia Elements and Meaning lesson plan includes
Lesson Objectives and Overview: Visual Multimedia Elements and Meaning teaches students to analyze visual elements and text to find the meaning. Throughout the lesson, students will be able to make connections between multimedia elements and text. Eventually, they will be able to determine how these elements influence different aspects of text.
Specifically, the lesson describes how to analyze the content of a text using its surrounding resources. Such resources include diagrams, illustrations, maps, and photographs. You will teach your students how visual media elements supplement texts. By the end the lesson, students should understand how visual elements enhance, or hinder, the text they surround.
The lesson starts off describing the idea of context and how it provides meaning. Students will write the meaning of certain shapes without any text. You can expect that they will recognize most or all of the shapes and identify their meanings. For instance, there’s a stop sign, but it does not have the word “stop” on it. There is also a crosswalk sign.
Students will then try to guess the meaning of one comic strip. And they will fill in what they think the text should be of another based on context. The exercise will help them understand how context gives clues to the meaning of texts.
CAPTION THE PICTURE ACTIVITY
There are two activities in this lesson. The first requires students to study text and image separately. First, they will study the image. Then, they will read the story that accompanies it. Afterward, they will answer four questions about the story and the image.
The other activity presents more illustrations. Based on what they see, students will answer a couple questions for each one. And for the first one, they will also get to caption word bubbles. They get to decide what the characters are saying!
VISUAL MULTIMEDIA ELEMENTS AND MEANING PRACTICE WORKSHEET
For the practice worksheet, students will analyze a story without a picture. They will answer the question that follows. Then they must read another story. This time, a picture accompanies it. Students have to answer questions based on what the context of the picture.
WRITE AND DRAW HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
The homework may be the most fun activity of the lesson! Students must write a short story and include a title. Then, to illustrate the story, they have to draw pictures in a movie panel. They will have to make sure the pictures represent the story.
