Junior Kindergarten: Visual Standards
- Attend to visual information showing understanding through play, gestures, facial expression
- Reveal their own feelings in response to visual presentations, for example, by showing amusement, curiosity, and surprise
- Observe visual cues that indicate context; show understanding by matching pictures with context
- Recognize familiar signs, labels and logos, for example, pedestrian walking sign, emergency exit sign; identify similarity and differences
- Make personal connections to visual texts, for example, a picture book about children making friends in a new situation
- Use body language to communicate and to convey understanding, for example, pointing, gesturing, facial expressions
- Select and incorporate colors, shapes, symbols, and images into visual presentations
- Show appreciation of illustrations in picture books by selecting and rereading familiar books, focusing on favorite pages
- Listen to terminology associated with visual texts and understand terms such as color, shape, and size
