Enhancing English Learners' Language Development Using Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
The Reading Teacher, 2015 This article presents an approach to use wordless picture books to enhance the language development of English language learners. This approach is grounded in best practices to teach ELLs. The process starts with viewing and analyzing the visual images, engaging ELLs in discussion, and ending with students' self-authored texts.
Louie, Belinda, Sierschynski, Jarek
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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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Breaking Down Barriers with Wordless Picturebooks: “The Silent Books Exhibition, from the World to Lampedusa and Back” [PDF]
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2019 In 2012 the Italian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) established a library on Lampedusa Island, Italy for the use of local children but also for the many refugee children arriving there from Africa and the Middle East ...
Alexander Kouker
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The importance of context-relative knowledge for illustrating wordless picture books [PDF]
Image & Text, 2022 This study investigated the role of signs in wordless picture books and their influence on meaning making. The article's main aim is to highlight the importance of using culturally appropriate signs to foster narrative comprehension in wordless picture books.
Maria Magdalena Ellmann +4 more
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Improving Class Interaction Using Hand-Made Wordless Picture Series for Preschoolers during Storytelling [PDF]
Journal of EST (Educational Science And Technology), 2018 Early childhood is a critical period for language development. Children need more language interactions with caregivers, for optimal its development. Narrative skill become the most power full point to language development.
Yustina Laurentius Sri Mulatsih +3 more
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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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