Visual Literacy: Silent Blue Book

This week in literacy we have been using our inference skills to pick apart a visual text called 'The Silent Blue Book' by Maia Walczak. There was no talking on the text, just music and we were working together to decide what we thought the story was about, what the author was trying to portray and how we felt about the text. Some of us found it so emotional it brought a few tears!! Here we are sharing ideas, listening to each other and writing our views.

Visual Literacy 'The Silent Blue Book'

Next week in literacy, we are going to be extending our pirate topic further and reading 'The Spell Shell'  by Roderick Hunt and then developing our interpreting skills by looking at 'The Silent Blue Book' by Maia Walczak. It is a piece of text with no words and we are going to be deciding what we think is happening to the character, her feelings, where she goes and why and what is the relevance of the fox.

You can watch it here....

This video is taken from http://www.literacyshed.com/the-maia-walczak-shed.html feel free to look at the authors other texts.

Visual Literacy: The Journey: John Lewis Christmas Advert 2012

This week in literacy we have been using the very popular John Lewis Christmas advert 'The Journey' to help us with our inference and deduction skills....looking deeply into texts to understand meaning and develop our ideas.

You can watch it below... Our Big Write tomorrow will also be based around this piece of film.

Here we are very engaged and producing some fantastic sentences and pieces of writing... I was astounded and the quality of writing and ideas you were all coming up with. Fantastic vocabulary being used and some interesting ideas about the snowman and snowlady we didn't think of at first!!

Visual Literacy: The Journey, John Lewis 2012 on PhotoPeach