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Co-Constructing Stories: Sharing Wordless Picture Books with Preschoolers
Children and Libraries, 2021 “A wordless book doesn’t have the author’s voice—the text—telling the story. Each reader tells it in their own way.”In this quotation, three-time Caldecott Medal recipient David Wiesner vividly describes the opportunity that wordless picture books provide for the reader to create their own story. The term “wordless picture books” is often used to refer
Andrea A. Zevenbergen +3 more
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Ecoliteracy Through Imagery: A Close Reading of Two Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
Children's Literature in Education, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to propose some ways of reading two wordless picture storybooks which have recently been published, by Suzy Lee and Bernardo Carvalho respectively. The objective is to analyse the ways in which the visual discourse can create an effective narrative using a variety of pictorial strategies.
Ramos, Ana Margarida, Ramos, Rui Lima
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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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Proceedings, 2017 This article discusses how the shared reading of wordless picture books can contribute to the promotion of parental educational engagement by fostering shared visual reading practices. Prior research shows that wordless picture books contribute to making
Cinzia Zadra
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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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Reading from the Wordless: A Case Study on the Use of Wordless Picture Books
English Language Teaching, 2008 For centuries people have conveyed meaning through the use of visual images, without the aid of written text. Consequently, wordless picture books have become a distinct genre within the world of literature. The wordless book is unique in that its content must be communicated solely through the use of illustrations.
Marina Mohd Arif, Fatimah Hashim
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Enhancing English Learners' Language Development Using Wordless Picture Books
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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MENTAL STATE TALK: ASSESSMENT THROUGH WORDLESS PICTURE STORY BOOK READING [PDF]
Pakistan Journal of Education, 2020 Mental state talk involves words that describe the mental world of individuals. These could be words that are about thoughts, feelings, desires, intentions, and emotions. There has been dearth of research in Pakistan assessing the parents and teachers’ use of mental state talk in conversation with young children, commonly because of lack of assessment ...
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Temporal transitions in narrative production with wordless picture books
LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, 2012 We present empirical results that demonstrate temporal intervals in story time affect narrative structure. Eight native English-speaking adults estimated the duration of intervals between events depicted in consecutive pictures in Mercer and Marianna Mayer’s wordless picture books, and a separate group of 37 adults wrote stories to accompany these ...
Lee, Choonkyu +2 more
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The importance of context-relative knowledge for illustrating wordless picture books
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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