Teach visual literacy with this comprehensive teacher slide deck, designed to explicitly teach how authors create meaning through the sequencing of images in visual texts.

Please note: This lesson is designed to be used alongside The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian Books, 2006). Teachers should have access to their own copy of the text and provide opportunities for students to view the illustrations directly during the lesson.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, this teacher slide deck provides a scaffolded pathway from explicit teacher modelling to guided analysis and supported application. Using The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian Books, 2006) as a mentor text, students investigate how the deliberate sequencing of images guides readers to infer meaning, interpret events and understand a narrative without written language.

These teacher slides can be used independently. Note: Where the teacher slides reference printable independent activities, these are available in the full lesson bundle here.

Through close examination of visual sequences, collaborative discussion and structured learning experiences, students analyse how visual elements such as composition, perspective, facial expressions, symbolism and pacing work together across a sequence of images to communicate ideas, emotions and events.

What's included in this teacher slide deck?

• Clear learning intentions and success criteria focused on analysing how image sequencing creates meaning in visual texts
• Explicit teaching of how authors use the order and arrangement of images to communicate ideas and tell a story without written language
• Modelled examples demonstrating how visual elements work together across a sequence to shape meaning
• Guided analysis of image sequences from The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Explicit teaching of visual features including composition, perspective, facial expressions, symbolism and sequencing
• Supported discussion and analysis tasks encouraging students to justify interpretations using visual evidence
• Built-in check-in questions to monitor understanding throughout the lesson
• A reflective exit ticket to inform next-step teaching and differentiation

Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this teacher slide deck develops students' visual literacy skills by teaching them to analyse how sequences of images communicate meaning, preparing them to interpret and create increasingly sophisticated visual texts.

Format: PowerPoint Slides

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning (AC9E5LA07)