Abstract

In this article, the authors address the concept of visual literacy by briefly describing the history of its creation and development over the past fifty years and, separately, present analysis of the modern approach to measuring the level of visual literacy. The study primarily aims to detect the visual literacy level characteristic of a modern verbally gifted student. To achieve the goal of the study, criteria for assessing the level of visual literacy of students at the level of competencies were developed using the revised international classification of competencies: basic user, independent user, and professional user. Using these criteria, 596 creative works requiring the use of visual literacy skills were analyzed. The data presented in the article clearly demonstrate that the basic level of visual literacy prevails among gifted schoolchildren. As a tool for developing visual literacy skills, the article also presents the Izotext workshop, which is built on teaching schoolchildren to visualize information, and provides an idea of the results of the workshop's testing during 2016–2019.