“…Most research on visual literacy has been carried out in the natural science domain (Slough, McTigue, Kim, & Jennings, 2010;Wright, McTigue, Eslami, & Reynolds, 2014;Yeh & McTigue, 2009). The limited research that we found in social studies has concerned how younger students understand the variety of graphics they encounter (Brugar & Roberts, 2017;Gregg, 1997), which is an important focus given the high frequency in content texts (Fingeret, 2012). Nevertheless, this focus has limited research primarily to receptive comprehension at different grade levels (Arizpe & Styles, 2003;Brugar & Roberts, 2017;McTigue & Flowers, 2011;Walsh, 2006).…”