The thesis discusses mainly on the teaching strategies for reading images in the visual culture and the combination of those strategies with teaching children traditional photography in visual culture course at school. The study applies both qualitative and quantitative research methods; with action research on the 5th graders of National Chengchi University Experimental Elementary School, the researcher collected, compared and analyzed data from teacher’s journals, field notes, achievement tests, semi-structured interviews, performance assessments, and evaluation sheets to show the influence of the teaching strategies on those 5th graders for their abilities to appreciate and create photographical pieces during the course. The conclusion attributed from the research on the photographical course is as follows: 一、Students approve the designs and activities involved in the course, and gain sense of achievement in creating photographical works. 二、Students gain their cognition of photographical art, the attitude and manners of photographical creation, and basic abilities for photography. 三、Students realize the basic concepts of using computer before they learn how to use digital camera. 四、There are obvious effects on students for their abilities to read and appreciate photographical images, which enables them to discuss and reflect on the themes of photography in the course. 五、Works of photography from students after the course show more aesthetic forms, ideas of creation, expression of inner thoughts before the course was applied. 六、Instruction on photography for elementary students meets the need of students and contemporary trends, and it can be linked with the other field and issues in the integrative education model and team teaching to enlarge its application, which makes it worth being promoted in the present arts education system in the elementary schools in Taiwan.