The Article Learning Through Play Portraits, Photoshop...

The article â€Å"Learning Through Play: Portraits, Photoshop and Visual Literacy Practices† written by Michelle A. Honeyford and Karen Boyd,is about learning literacy through imaginative and visual play. The article gives a detailed look at an afterschool program that lets students learn about literacy while using creativity. Throughout this critique, areas of the article will be discussed that were successful and some that need improvement. One area of success is keeping creativity in education. But there should be a formal assessment to prove this. Next an area of critique is the fact that the article highlights the success if the program without once mentioning how it was funded which raises question. Honeyford and Boyd believe that â€Å"research in early childhood education demonstrates the vital importance of play to young children’s linguistics, social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.†(p.65). This particular study was about an afterschool program in Canada that focused on using play and creativity to learn literacy. Honeyford and Boyd designed to answer questions â€Å"about learning and identity but they also provided students with multiple points of entry, varied levels of support, a range of mentors and mentor texts, options to take more or less risk, and time to reflect-to learn from their process and share their discoveries.†(p.63). the activities were inquiry based and the students were given quests. The students were on a quest to give their own