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Countering Censorship of Queer Picturebooks Through Disorientation and Epistemic Responsibility

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine patterns in the censoring of sexuality and gender identity in children's literature over recent decades to inform our analysis of current challenges to and bans of queer picturebooks. To do so, we supplement critical content analysis (CCA) methodology with a genealogical approach to more fully contextualize censoring ...
Caroline T. Clark, Rachel Skrlac Lo, Alyssa Chrisman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remixing Global Book Hour: Informing Thoughtful Responses to Changing Literacy Contexts

The Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 6, Page 456-463, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT We explore the concept of remixing existing literacy programs instead of replacing them in light of calls for changes emerging from local, national, and international conversations about literacy research and practice. We explain the evolution of a long‐standing community and school literacy program in which pre‐service teachers conduct ...
Jennifer Sharples Reichenberg, Kim Truesdell, Pixita del Prado Hill, Patricia D. George   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's drawings as an interpretive response to a gamified narrative with augmented reality: the case of Towards the South Pole

Literacy, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 185-198, May 2025.
Abstract Drawing is an ideal technique to understand children's responses to fictional narratives, including digital ones. In this case, a gamified narrative with augmented reality (AR), based on a picturebook, was designed and used in an intervention in 8 Early Childhood Education classrooms (N = 113), aimed at enhancing their literary competence ...
María del Rosario Neira‐Piñeiro, Begoña Camblor‐Pandiella, Nerea López‐Bouzas, M. Esther del‐Moral‐Pérez, Jonathan Castañeda‐Fernández   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Emotional Intelligence and Inferential Comprehension Using Character Analysis in Picturebooks

The Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 236-242, January/February 2025.
Abstract This Teaching and Learning Guide highlights how early childhood teachers can support emotional intelligence and inferential comprehension by drawing children's attention to characters' feelings and by asking students to notice evidence from the illustrations and text.
Robin Griffith, Kate Davison, Lexxa Kight, Iman Stanmore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yes, Charlotte Died: Using Picturebooks to Talk about, Not Avoid, the Topic of Death

The Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 156-164, November/December 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on the difficult event of death. The audience for this article is classroom teachers, librarians/media specialists, curriculum developers, and so on. The purpose is to share points to consider when choosing quality picture books focusing on death as well as exemplars to represent these points.
Lisa Parker, Kennedy Wittman, William P. Bintz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving a Shared Understanding of Life. Artists’ reflections on their constructions of the past and the self in traumatic and nostalgic autobiographical picturebooks

European Journal of Life Writing, 2014
When sharing the own life story through a picturebook, artists are expected to be influenced by several factors: their motive for creating an autobiographical picturebook, the construction of their past self and present self through the interplay of text
Marloes Schrijvers
doaj   +1 more source

Combining Social–Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach

The Reading Teacher, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 165-176, November/December 2024.
Abstract There is value in integrating social–emotional learning with academic development as a way to support children's abilities to effectively communicate ideas, collaboratively solve problems, and strengthen early literacy practices. In this article, we discuss suggestions for using picturebook read‐alouds as stepping stones for integrating social–
Amanda Deliman, Marla K. Robertson, Rachel K. Turner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enacting Civic‐Minded Early Childhood Pedagogy in the Context of Chauvinistic Education Legislation

Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 5, Page 662-681, October 2024.
Abstract Amid efforts to limit “divisive concepts” in educational settings, this article investigates the obstruction of a civic‐focused early childhood curriculum. Joy Dangora Erickson and Winston Thompson analyze the challenges faced by a resourceful kindergarten teacher striving to uphold curriculum goals despite constraints imposed by the state ...
Joy Dangora Erickson, Winston C. Thompson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to Heartbeat: the pulse of ecofeminism in a picturebook

, 2021
Using an ecofeminist theoretical frame along with critical content analysis of visual images, this article examines the environmental discourse of the picturebook, Heartbeat, written and illustrated by Evan Turk (2018). In this picturebook, Turk uses the
Ryman, Cynthia K.
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Literary responses in Spanish adolescents: Adaptation, validation, and analysis of the Literary Response Questionnaire

Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 82-93, September/October 2024.
Abstract This study involves translating, cross‐culturally adapting, and validating the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ) for 413 Spanish adolescents. It explores the evolution of literary education in Spain and its alignment with the Reading Responses paradigm.
Diana Muela‐Bermejo, Irene Mendoza‐Cercadillo, Lucía Hernández‐Heras   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source