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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Picture book"”.
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… involved in the depiction of Black children in picture book text and images, focusing particularly on the representation of Black children as food. My corpus of texts consists of six picture books by five different Black creators: three with poems by Joyce Carol Thomas and illustrated by Floyd …
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Let the Culture Speak: Teaching Strategies for Children's Picture Book Design with Traditional Chinese Cultural Background
… project concerning the design of children’s picture books by university-level students of digital graphic design and illustration. It offers an original contribution to the research in art and design pedagogy. A literature review, questionnaires, and interviews with design students, together …
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An exploration of the impact of picture book illustrations on the comprehension skills and vocabulary development of emergent readers
… Children in our society expect to experience pictures and images in almost everything they encounter. This graphic orientation needs to be taken advantage of and incorporated into the educational process in ways that can be beneficial to the learning environments of children in our schools. …
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A Picture Book for the Roboticist— Why we Should Start with Hardware, and How to Teach so it Sticks
This thesis explores why and how to teach hardware design in relation to building intelligent systems. We focus on the concepts of modeling, embedded systems, and actuation, and develop a series of hands-on exercises to teach specific concepts based on previous work. We identify and explain the …
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The Halloween Party
… Party, is a mix of individual works and a picture-book. The individual works consist of oil paintings on canvas, and gouache paintings on paper. The oil paintings deal with the figurative, although there are abstract moments to be found within them. Whether or not the figure is present, the …
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Novel ways to measure future-oriented cognition: Using parent-report measures and open-ended responses to explore young children’s future thinking development
… using a novel, open-ended version of the Picture-book task. Results showed that children were able to generate items for future use and were more successful with age. Children’s explanations for their generated items were typically present-focused and included both episodic and semantic …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… the ‘imaginary friend’ as a narrative device in picture book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the imaginary friend, to then explore the phenomenon …
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Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World
… childhood can be applied to the creation of picture book illustrations. In doing so, it positions picture books as educational tools, and advocates for the importance of using them not to recreate nature, but to connect readers with the tangible world of natural and human-made objects that …
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BOTH SIDES
… from various backgrounds). It then focuses on my picture book, BOTH SIDES, representing how the different thinking modes and the specific cultural differences influenced me as a Chinese illustrator working and learning in the US.</p>
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
This study analyzed book discussions of primary aged ESL students and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which …
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Children's Literature and Diabetes
… the genre of children's literature, specifically picture books, and their treatment of the topic of diabetes. I frame my argument with an examination of diabetes, the psychological effects of diabetes on the child, the need of thorough education about diabetes. I argue for the use of the picture …
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Emotions in children’s narratives and their presence in therapy
… the effects of narrative types, namely a picture book story, a first person narrative and a third person narrative, and age, 7, 9 and 11, on children's use of emotion descriptive words. The lengths of the three story types were used as covariates. A 3*3 ANCOVA was carried out showing that …
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Influence of collaborative group work on English language learner's oral narratives
… individually told a story prompted by a wordless picture book. The assessment of students’ story telling followed the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) conventions. Analysis of story transcripts indicated greater syntactic complexity and narrative cohesiveness in the stories …
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Fictitious Ecology
… project, The Mountain Fog, is a children’s picture book pitch that tells a light-hearted story of two dogs who must face an environmental disaster. In this accompanying critical essay, I break down the process of crafting a fictional relationship between author-illustrator, animal …
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Sicilians In Detroit: How Do They Speak?
… their life in the US, retold a story seen in a picture book and counted from one to 20. Sections of the interview in both languages were then judged by native speakers of Sicilian and English respectively for native-like pronunciation. The analysis of the data tried to determine what variables …
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Mothers' beliefs about emotions, mother-child emotion discourse, and children's emotion understanding in Latino families
… task using a Lego house and through a wordless picture book. Children's emotion understanding was measured using two standard tasks. Results showed that mothers' acculturation was related to their beliefs about the danger of emotions, their role in guiding their child's emotions, and their …
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L2 Effect on Bilingual Spanish/English Encoding of Motion Events: Does Manner Salience Transfer?
… involved narrating stories from Mayer’s (1969) picture book <em>Frog, Where Are You?</em> and from a custom-made animation created from episodes of <em>Gazoon</em> (Villemaine & Trouvé, 2007). The two non-linguistic tasks consisted of a MANNER/PATH categorical task and a MANNER/PATH similarity …
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How can I encourage emotional expression and awareness through the use of drama methodologies?
… consisted of drama lessons which used a wordless picture book as a stimulus. Data was collected through baseline and closing interviews, observations and a teacher reflective journal. Triangulation was achieved by reflecting on the data collected in accompaniment with the use of relevant …
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Language and conflict detection in the development of executive function
… by their use contrastive negation on a novel picture book task, controlling for age and verbal IQ. In Study 2, a training experiment was conducted using a pre-post control group design in which three-year-old children were provided with linguistic experience involving the use of negation to …
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