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writtenlanguage,people painted.Take,for example,ancient walls covered in drawings,like thosefoundin theLascauxcavesin FrancecreatedbyPaleolithichumans estimated to have lived as far backas 16,000BCE.  \nPerhaps image-making is a hasicinstinct.Given the chance,children draw and paint as soon as they can hold the tools—cer-tainly before they can easily talk.Early on,they make what seemto adults like random marks,but soon enoogh,surveys of chil-dren's drawings show a universe of schemes they develop forrepresenting what they've seen.  \n\"What they've seen\"is a compilation that begins as soon asinfants can focus.It's another instinct for allsighted children—they figure things out by looking.Tiny babies quickly recognizetheir parents and siblings and figure out that each one attends tothem inadifferentway.They recognize that different expressions  \nPhilip Yenawine is a cofounder of Visual Thinking Strategies(VTS)andthe Watershed Collaboratiue,established to increase access toVTS,and theformerdirector ofeducation at the Museum ofModern Art.Parts ofthisarticleare excerptedwith permissionfromhis books Visual Thinking Strat-egies:UsingArt to Deepen Learningacross School Disciplines(2013)nndVisual Thinking Strategies for Preschool:Using Art to Enhance Literacyand Social Sklls (2018).Bath titles are published by Harvard EducationPress.For more information,please visithttps://bit.ly/2Szhck0 andhttps://bit.ly/2N2Svql.  \n22 AMERICAN EDUCATOR |SPRING 2019  \nmean different things,a smile different from a worried look,forexample.We can see their awareness in their expressions.But thisisjust the beginning.Babies continue to search their worlds withtheir eyes,and as they grow,their visual insights build.Dogs aredifferentiated frorn cats,and different sizes and shapes are accom-modated within the overall categories.By the time they are 3 and  \n4,all are adept at figuring outagreat deal from looking around.  \nThis \"figuring out\"is referred to by the cognitive scholarRudolf Arnheim as \"visual thinking.\"In his book of that name,he details the instantaneous and productive processing by thebrain of what the eye takes in.\"  \nCaregivers and early childhood educators make use of thecuriosity,desire to know,and visual acuity of children to providemuch of the basis for language and other learning.Playingon theirincessant looking,the people around them who know to do sonamewhatababy's gaze seems torest on.Theychat with the childabout what happens during the course of days—while eating,taking walks,playing,bathing,and so on.They narrate doringwanders through parks,zoos,and stores,connecting what is seenand experienced to words and sentences.They introduce illos-trated books that captivate children's attention and provide auseful bridge from seeing to talking to reading.  \nWhen books and reading aloud are in the mix of resourcesmade available,illustrations help children learn language byseveral means.They offer a parallel version of the story told inwords,one 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