Silent Books. Wonder, Silence and Other Metamorphosis in Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
Proceedings, 2018 In the field of children’s literature, wordless picture books, or silent books, are visual narrations offering readers the chance to experiment new ways of reading images and using words.
Marcella Terrusi
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How to Assess Oral Narrative Skills of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesChildren and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) often encounter difficulties with narrative skills. Yet, there is a lack of research focusing on how to assess these skills in this population.
Victoria Sánchez-Gómez +5 more
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Wordless picture books in parent-child reading in a South African context
Acta Academica, 2013 This article is the result of an exploratory study into the feasibility of the use of wordless picture books with the aim of developing a culture and love of reading within the South African context, as approached from the viewpoint of an illustrator ...
Adrie le Roux, Elmarie Costandius
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Early parent-child intervention with Dialogic Book-Sharing: effects on child communicative and socio-emotional development and on parenting. Study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial in Italy [PDF]
TrialsBackground Research in the neurosciences has highlighted the importance of intersubjective relationships in promoting neuromental development of the child.
Cena Loredana +5 more
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Image perception and reception in wordless picture books: Eye movements of children with intellectual disabilities. [PDF]
J Intellect DisabilWordless picture books enhance comprehension and vocabulary growth and motivate children with intellectual disabilities (ID) to participate in literary activities. However, the reception of picture books can be challenging because deliberate selective attention processes and recognition of the image's meaning are often delayed. Examining eye movements
Sarimski R +3 more
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Using a wordless picture book to explore children’s narrative production in rural Kenya
Reading & WritingBackground: Early language development is critical for literacy acquisition and academic success. However, children in rural Africa often face challenges such as limited access to literacy resources and minimal shared reading experiences at home, which ...
Rehema Abiyo +6 more
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Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books
TESOL Journal, 2023 AbstractTeaching literacy skills that require critical reading and linguistic output can feel like an insurmountable challenge when presented with students of varying language proficiencies. One valuable but often unused tool to surmount these challenges is wordless picture books (WPBs).
Jennifer D. Honaker, Ryan T. Miller
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New Perspectives on Picture Books [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2017 The use of picture books has been illuminated as a potential to address important topics such as STEM, fluency, and social justice. Unique genres such as hybrid texts and wordless picture books are also worth considering for instruction.
Lisa Ciecierski +3 more
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img journal, 2023 This article discusses the relationships that have been established throughout history between drawn pictures and written words. An almost epic interweaving of war and peace emerges between the two languages that, depending on the times, cultures and ...
Enrico Cicalò
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A pilot study on the aesthetic communication process of readers interpreting wordless picturebooks based on the Anno’s Journey series [PDF]
Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, 2013 This study investigated the genealogy of iconographic interpretation. By adopting an aesthetic communication model for reader responses as the basis for consideration, we regarded reader-book interactions as the artistic and receptive poles of the ...
Yu-Chai Lai
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