From my experiencing of designing instruction and creating visual instruction resources I have come to realize the value graphics have to supplement instruction and also their benefit when they stand alone. As far as the instructional design, I found that it requires a high level of attention to detail and consideration of students' abilities and point of view, more so than instruction with multimedia aspects. Because the visuals are solely presenting the concept, the designer must ensure that the graphics are highly meaningful and comprehensible, otherwise students will not understand their meaning or learn intended information. From my work this week with visual instruction, I think that they can be especially useful with young elementary students who are not fluent readers, and therefore cannot access written text and instructions. Symbols and pictures can help elementary students more quickly understand information, than attempting to decode text. In classrooms I have worked in I have seen and used graphics regularly and successfully in cooperation with text. With, for example, kindergarten students visuals play a great role in their development of reading skills when they have a graphic representation of text to support reading.