Poster Designfor the K-12 classroom

Dawn SchwartzEisenhower Elementary School

Sayreville

FIRST STEP…

Make your own poster!

Poster Design LessonK-5

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to

descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.3.5 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that

demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate

to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

ELA Common Core Standards(Poster Assignment)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information

presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and

requesting clarification if something is not understood.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a

text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.5.2 Summarize a written text read aloud or information

presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

ELA Common Core Standards(Poster Presentation)

Start with the basics!

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Discuss what makesa good poster

•Original

•Simple

•Colorful

•Organized

•Readable

•Spaced

•Neat

•Accurate

•Action

What should students look at?Large letters for headlines

Simple typeColors that

contrast paper – no yellow on a light color and no black over dark colors!

Big, bold pictures!

Big letters for sub-heads

Capital letters are used for words that have to stand out

If you have a big paragraph, it goes under its picture

Try a “Poster Walk”around your school

Ask what different kinds ofposters you see…

…what do they do?

…how do they look?

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Poster Design Lesson6-8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally)

and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.6.5 Include multimedia components

(e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information

ELA Common Core Standards(Middle School)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7Integrate visual information

(e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of

that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

History/SS Common Core Standards

Science/Tech Common Core Standards

In Middle School, students start to learn how to connect the dots they learned about in Elementary School.

Poster projectscan be used to help

visualize this process.

• musical - rhythmic

• visual - spatial

• verbal - linguistic

• logical - mathematical

• bodily - kinesthetic

• interpersonal

• intrapersonal

• naturalistic

Start by doing a similarposter walk of your building.

How are the messages differentthan they are for younger

students?

Messages might be more complicated

Mnemonics used for younger grades bridge the gap between elementary and high school

Accompanying pictures are a bit more complex

Poster Design Lesson9-12

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5

Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings,

reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

ELA Common Core Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of

information presented in diverse formats and media

(e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of

information presented in diverse formats and media

(e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

History/SS Common Core Standards

Science/Tech Common Core Standards

DetailedInformation

Serious subjectmatter

Complex imagesand/or typography

Using better tools thatthey learned how to use in Middle School, students are

able to demonstratehow to visually organize

both academic projects and abstract concepts.

But left alone, they stillmake mistakes…

… here was a poster tourin my hallways:

No yellow type on white paper!

No yellow type on white paper!

No dark type on dark paper!

Don’t clutter it up!

Make it interesting!

Some better examples…

Time to rethink your work!

Thank You!

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jschwartz@design-ed.org

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