Online Course
Visual Tools for Literacy
Presenter: Dr. David Hyerle

This course is a time saving and effective way to introduce a whole school and/or school system to these research-based, practical tools for literacy.

Dr. Hyerle draws extensively from the research and graphic displays found in the seven chapters of his ASCD Book:“A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools.” With an engaging and motivational style, David presents the practical applications of visual tools to reading comprehension and writing processes for all children.

Watch and listen to a summary of the course

This course includes:

• a complete video workshop presentation by Dr. Hyerle, with theory, research, and practical applications
• 7 thirty minute video sections, chunked into meaningful segments
• extensive handouts as PDF files that are linked to each segment
• feedback assessments useful for course credit and self-reflection
• regular access to Dr. Hyerle through online dialogue
• course credit arranged

Course Description
This timely course brings to your whole faculty or school system key information on how visual tools such as graphic organizers and Thinking Maps® directly improve students’ reading comprehension, writing processes, and thinking skills.

Using the Put Reading First summary report as a framework, Dr. Hyerle shows how vocabulary development and reading comprehension depend on students’ abilities to organize information from nonfiction and fiction text using text structures.

Contact us for specific information about bringing Visual Tools for Literacy into your learning organization.

Here are the seven sections of the course are shown below in the Flow Map.