Resources for Youth Literacy: The Photography Project
Package Guide

Welcome! This package is divided into five sections:

1. Overview and Table of Contents
2. Research Summaries
3. Before You Start…
4. Schedule and Learning Materials
5. Resources and Appendices

Use the following brief descriptions of sections 2-5 to determine what you need to read before you begin planning and teaching your photography and literacy program.

2. Research Summaries

This section includes two summaries: one of the published research and one of our own focus group research. Both are helpful contexts to understanding why Photography and Literacy is a successful combination for youth-at-risk.

3. Before You Start…

This section includes :

• A synopsis of our experience teaching this program as a pilot project, including a summary of the evaluation! satisfaction survey we used at the end of the pilot
• A brief Visual Arts Primer with common terms and definitions you might encounter in teaching this photography program
• An equally brief Technical Requirements list, essential reading if you are planning to use digital cameras!

4. Schedule and Learning Materials

This section includes a program schedule and all the learning materials and activity sheets you will need to run a Literacy and Photography Project. The program is presented as a four days a week, four hour schedule, over a four week period. The activity sheets narned in the schedule are located in a folder at the end of each weekly section - no more flipping through to find the correct sheets while planning out your week!

5. Resources and Appendices

This section includes a Resource List for photography related classroom materials, a project Materials List, and the Appendices. The Appendices contain the advertisments for the focus groups, photography consent forms, our pilot project recruitment advertisement, and a template for advertising your Photography Project.