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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"picturebook"”.
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English language learning kindergartners' dynamic responses to picturebook reading
… in multimodal literacy practices in response to picturebook readings in a mainstream classroom. Three focal Spanish-speaking kindergartners and their classroom teacher took part in this study. Data were collected daily for four months in a half-day morning kindergarten program. The participants' …
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The Power of the Picturebook: Examining Aesthetics and Critical Literacy for Imagination
… was to explore the notion of the power of the picturebook. My intent was to read picturebooks aloud with my reading community not for information or to entertain but to connect the picturebook with the experiences of both the reader and the listener and then to come away from the reading …
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Sibling readers’ joint reading practices and multimodal responses to picturebook reading events in home settings.
… from seven families responded to high-quality picturebooks during home-based reading events. Siblings were offered a range of print and digital picturebooks to read. Although parents filmed the reading events (in adherence to Covid-19 safety guidelines) the reading was led by siblings …
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The Cycle of Creative Resources - The creative process and creative well-being from the perspective of picturebook illustrators
… of the creative process from the perspective of picturebook illustrators. The methodological basis of the thesis is a qualitative approach called grounded theory. The term "grounded" refers to the idea that the theory emerging from the research is grounded in data, instead of having its basis in …
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How can I teach Emotional Literacy to Junior Infants using Picturebooks?
… of Emotional Literacy to junior infants using picturebooks. With mental health issues a growing concern for Irish children and facing into a new era of education following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the responsibility to support the wellbeing of their pupils has never been …
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Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
… emergent readers. This study looked at wordless picturebooks and how they could be used with linguistic prompting to develop inferential thinking in young readers, building on the work of Grolig et al. (2020). The study involved a a quasi-experimental, 2-between subjects (wordless/worded …
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Cracked Windows, Broken Mirrors, and Closed Doors: A Critical Content Analysis of African American Children's Books
… of all races and researchers have indicated that picturebooks that are diverse and culturally responsive can affirm cultural and social identities (Crowley, Fountain, & Torres, 2012). The purpose of this study was to examine how the life experiences of African American families are currently being …
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The Third Story: An Exploration of Intergrating Ironic Counterpoint into the Multimodal Text-image Relationship of Children's Picturebooks
… between text and image in children's picturebooks, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of "ironic counterpoint" as a narrative device. Recognizing the complexity inherent in multimodal narratives, this study aims to clarify how the interplay of verbal and visual modes not …
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Portraying Anxiety Disorders in Picturebooks: An Exploration into Using Picturebooks as an Interface Between Therapists and Young Adults (age 18–34)
In the past, picturebooks were generally comprised of pictures combined with relatively minimal text or no text and aimed at educating or entertaining children, but picturebooks have gradually developed beyond this subject-matter and audience (Nodelman, 2017). Since 2000, picturebooks have been …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… – novels, anime shows, graphic novels, and a picturebook – produced in America and Japan. Chapter 1 reads Kelly Barnhill’s novel *The Girl Who Drank the Moon* and the anime television series *Madoka Magi Puella Magica*, examining the construction of girlhood through embodied experience and …
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Tales of the city: a critical exploration of children’s place- related identity with reference to London.
… children’s responses to selected London-based picturebook texts allow for a holistic reflection on how children perceive and express their identities in relation to the city of London, as real and represented. This multimodal interdisciplinary research examines the children’s perspectives in …
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Literature, interarts, and multimodality in the narrative of Seán Virgo: a transmedial inquiry into pictorial, architectural, theatrical, musical, and iconotextual tranfers
… 2 scopes referential critique of the children's picturebook genre (Nikolajeva & Scott 2013, Clement 2013, Pantaleo 2008, etc.) to demonstrate that the postmodern iconotext is often paradox-ridden and prone to adult deciphering. With that investigative goal, this chapter inspects: (2.1) hitherto …
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Picture thinking: the development of visual literacy in young children
… and drawing to make sense of complex multimodal picturebooks. By examining what it means to be visually literate, it is possible to broaden our understanding of childhood literacy by highlighting the role played by the different modes of communication. Visual literacy has become a familiar term …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
This mixed methods dissertation is guided by a sociocultural framework and a pragmatist stance to contribute to early literacy scholarship about minority children. In particular, I explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status Puerto Rican children’s reading experience and their social …
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Mais que mil palavras: o livro-álbum no 2.º e 3.º ciclos do ensino básico
O presente trabalho de projeto pretende expor e valorizar o livro-álbum como recurso para promoção da leitura e literacia visual em estudantes de 2.º e 3.º ciclo do ensino básico. Considerando que o sistema educativo é o órgão de excelência que orienta o percurso de aprendizagem dos alunos, convém …
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
This dissertation investigates meaning-making in children’s joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app’s texts and their reading and on children’s negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. …