Images in Text

Essential Question:
What are the purposes of using
images in textbooks?
 Information and Media Literacy
Georgia performance standards:
• ELA7R1, ELA7RC2 and ELA7LSV2
• ELA8R1, ELA8RC2 and ELA8LSV2
• Understand and analyze a wide range of
informational texts and media.
• Identify and interpret graphic features (e.g.,
diagrams, maps, illustrations, charts, tables,
and graphs) in textbooks such as science and
social studies books.
First, what are images?
1.Something made visible.
2. Shows an idea.
3. May show data in a
dimensional form.
 Images are used in three major ways:
1. As an example:

A. May show what an idea or concept being

described in text looks like.

B. Strengthen a point in which the author is

trying to persuade his or her audience.
Examples of Images as Example

Example of tomatoes.

Example of how to apply eye

shadow.
 2. As evidence:
• Images can be used to add new information.

• Image used to represent data that is being

described in the text.

• Used to highlight the argument that the author is

trying to make to persuade his or her audience.
Examples of images used as evidence.
Drinking and driving fatalities by state in 2006
(ranked by highest number of alcohol related deaths):
Alcohol-Related
Total Fatalities
State
Fatalities
Number Percent
Texas 3,466 1,544 45%
California 4,229 1,509 36%
Florida 3,363 1,111 33%
Pennsylvani
1,517 556 37%
a
Illinois 1,254 540 43%
Georgia 1,688 539 32%
Arizona 1,280 502 39%
North
1,558 490 31%
Carolina
New York 1,454 483 33%

Tennessee 1,286 478 37%

South
1,037 477 46%
Carolina
Missouri 1,087 469 43%
Ohio 1,235 451 37%

Retrieved from http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-

statistics-2007.html on 12/18/09.

Retrieved from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://caboosedonut.files.w

ordpress.com/2009/04/drinking- on 12/18/09.
 *This projection graph shows the increase in the Hispanic population.
Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic/files/Internet_Hispanic_in_US_2006.pdf on 11/11/09.
 3. As expression.
• An image which is used to express a feeling or
attitude.

• Can be used to stylize information that is

being described in the text.

• Images that make an ironic or emotional

comment in which the author is trying to
persuade his or her audience.
 Examples of expression:

1.
Irony shown in billboards.
Image retrieved from http://listverse.com/2007/09/23/10-images-of-irony/ on 12/18/09.
 2.

Irony shown in images.

Retrieved from http://listverse.com/2007/09/23/10-images-of-irony/ on
12/18/09.

Some images show feelings like

boredom. Retrieved from
http://media.photobucket.com/image/
sad/stonehands78/sad-baby.jpg?o=21
on 12/18/09.
 Analyze the Image
Answer the following
1. Example, Evidence,
Expression?
2. List what you see in the add
(People, objects, activities)
3. What do you conclude (get)
from the image?
4. What questions does it raise?
5. Where can you find the
answers?

Example: Author is trying to say,

“This is what you could look like”.
 Analyze the Image
Answer the following
1. Example, Evidence,
Expression?
2. List what you see in the add
(People, objects, activities)
3. What do you conclude (get)
from the image?
4. What questions does it raise?
5. Where can you find the
answers?
Expression: Author is trying to
express the happy feeling of getting
a pbj sandwich
 Analyze the Image
Answer the following
1. Example, Evidence,
Expression?
2. List what you see in the add
(People, objects, activities)
3. What do you conclude (get)
from the image?
4. What questions does it raise?
5. Where can you find the
answers?
Example: Author is showing an
example of what a balanced diet
should be.
 Analyze the Image
Answer the following
1. Example, Evidence,
Expression?
2. List what you see in the add
(People, objects, activities)
3. What do you conclude (get)
from the image?
4. What questions does it raise?
5. Where can you find the
answers?
Evidence: The author is showing
stats.
 Activity:
Scavenger Hunt!
• Choose a partner or work together to find examples, in
your assigned books, of the three E’s: Examples,
Evidence, and Expression. Fill out the worksheet for
each image.

• Using the iPad, create a video or take pictures of your

examples and tell why it is an example of each.

• Have learning creative fun!