• write a definition of visual literacy and
• match the three components of visual literacy to their respective meanings.

Visual literacy is the ability to understand, create, and use visual images.

• visual thinking,
  

• visual communication, and
  

• visual learning.
  

Visual thinking is the ability to transform thoughts, ideas, and information into all types of pictures, graphics, or other images that help communicate the associated information.

Visual communication is when pictures, graphics, and other images are used to express ideas and to teach people.

For visual communication to be effective, the receiver must be able to construct meaning from seeing the visual image.

Visual learning is the process of learning from pictures and media.

Visual learning includes the construction of knowledge by the learner as a result of seeing the visual image.