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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"picturebooks"”.
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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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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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Teaching intra-active comprehension with picturebooks in a grade three South African classroom
My posthumanist research explores how the material-discursive reality of the classroom environment, school time practices, and bodily movements affect the teaching and learning of literac(y)ies. My posthumanist research materialised the notion of Intra-Active Comprehension as a way to describe the …
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Picturebooks as Visual Literacy: The Influence of Illustrations on Second-Graders' Comprehension of Narrative Text
This study poses the following research question: "How does change in text type as text contains more illustrations and fewer words influence second-graders' comprehension of narrative text?" Eleven second-graders read three texts each and completed a series of oral reading comprehension tasks. The …
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A socio-cultural study exploring Greek and English 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks
… English 11-year-old students respond to wordless picturebooks. Through the identification of themes in their responses, the study explores the children's engagement while interpreting these books, and also demonstrates how wordless picturebooks can be addressed to and enjoyed by fluent readers. …
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Speaking for the Trees: Critical Analyses Concerning Young Readers’ Responses to the Representation of Environmental Issues in Picturebooks.
… I investigate the ways in which selected picturebooks can persuasively model ecologically attuned attitudes and practices to young readers. I also analyse how these texts can open up spaces for young readers to reinforce, challenge and augment their own ideas in relation to the natural …
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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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The Power of the Picturebook: Examining Aesthetics and Critical Literacy for Imagination
… 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 someone new. Ten Gifted and Talented, …
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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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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 Effects of Word Instruction During Classroom Read-Alouds on the Acquisition of Vocabulary
… of participants. The investigator read six picturebooks to two groups of kindergarteners. Group A had 21 participants and Group B had 20 participants. Each group received instruction on two different sets of target vocabulary words, three in each book. The researcher administered a pre-test …
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An exploration into young children's embodied engagement with storyworlds through curated storyworld play
… embodied engagement with the storyworlds of picturebooks during a playful activity, called curated storyworld play, within English Reception classrooms. The research draws upon two conventionally opposing theoretical framings, sociocultural and sociomaterial perspectives towards …
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Reading illustrated novels: exploring the medium through participatory case study
… from research into illustrated novels, picturebooks, and theories of response to art. The research was conducted as a participatory qualitative multiple case study, working with five 9-10-year-old children reading three illustrated novels: The Imaginary by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett, …
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‘Undergoing' as posthuman literacy research in an in/formal settlement primary school in South Africa
… Inspired by Murris and Haynes' Philosophy with Picturebooks approach, I conducted philosophical enquiries with small groups of primary school children (aged 9-12) as a way of doing literacy support. The children were diagnosed by the school as having barriers to learning and were research …
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The Cycle of Creative Resources - The creative process and creative well-being from the perspective of picturebook illustrators
… four-stage process followed when illustrating picturebooks. The second – the Cycle of Creative Resources – proposes that creative well-being could be observed as a cycle of six states of creative resources that have been identified in this thesis. Where on the Cycle of Creative Resources a …
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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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To what extent did making an inventory of my class library cause me to reflect on and change how I teach story-writing to Junior Infants so as to live more in line with my educational values?
… Infant children were enabled to write their own picturebooks. This entailed using modelled writing as part of the writing-workshop structure as well as other changes to the teacher’s previous practice.In the initial stage, an inventory of the classroom library books was completed, and it was …
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Engaging the Whole Mind: Transmediation Between Pictures and Print
<p> The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways second grade children signaled the meanings they made from pictures and print and to identify ways they signaled new meanings when transmediations between these two semiotic systems took place. The study was a mixed methods study using …