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An infographic tells one story
What makes a poster of numbers an infographic?
Today you'll discover
- what an infographic is made of
- where its numbers come from
- why it uses few words
Think firstRoom 12 made this poster
What is this poster mostly for?
Decide first, then press Next. Look for the one thing every part is about.
A tall poster titled How Room 12 gets to school, with the message Walking is the most common way, a boxed headline 8 of 20 walk, a small bar graph beside a table of shares, and a source line at the bottom. Then the poster empty except for a table of counts, then with its displays, then with numbered circles showing the reading order. The last step shows Grade 5's yard-vote poster.
See the whole ideathe big idea and the key word, in one place
The big idea
An infographic uses displays and a few words to tell one story about a data set.
The usual partsA title, one message, a headline number, one or two displays of the data, and a source line saying where the numbers came from.
Compare themA table of data lists the numbers. An infographic shows them so a reader sees the story quickly, with as few words as possible.
Key word
- infographic
- a poster or page that uses graphs, tables, numbers and a few words to tell one story about a set of data
Ready to use it?
- Say what story an infographic tells.
- Find the parts of an infographic.