Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Talking Out the Text

Current approaches to literacy acknowledge the importance of social purpose in text construction and to enable an informed approach to written texts, teachers make use of a scope and sequence of grammatical terms that allow us to 'talk out a text'. The rationale behind working towards a visual grammar for talking out texts has never been to create a prescriptive, traditional grammar but the aim has been to create a Meta language that can be shared.